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 definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
developments in
learning technology have enabled
learners
in all parts of the world
to take classes via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
blended learning organizations
are dealing with
now that online education technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can participants
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Vanuatu to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
want
to better understand
these
new open education
ventures.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This authoritative new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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