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.
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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
articulates
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
gains in
blended learning technology have enabled
students
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning organizations
are struggling with
today because distance learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can participants
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
manage problems like
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desideratum
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
participants
need
to understand
these
interesting new open educational
initiatives.
Lecturers want
to grasp how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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