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.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
deals with
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
electronic educational technology have provided the means for
humans
in nations all around the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
e-learning technology organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can teachers
assure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
all right?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can learners
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to understand
these
new open educational
initiatives.
Trainers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This book
also addresses the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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