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 scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
researches
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
gains in
learning technology have made it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online courses.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These online MOOCs are
normally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
learning technology institutions
have to deal with
now that online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
demand
to comprehend how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
these
exciting new open educational
endeavours.
Corporations want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
demand for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics.
This thrilling new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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