MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
examines
subjects
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
evolvements in
online education technology have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to participate in courses online.
These massive open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning institutions
have to struggle with
today because distance learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can participants
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can students
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Chile to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
manage issues like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education subjects.
This new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
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