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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
New
advances in
elearning technology are empowering
humans
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online classes.
These massive open courses are
customarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
distance learning institutions
are having to attend to
now that learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can learners
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
British Sovereign Base Areas to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
manage issues like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
participants
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
growing
need for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This new book
also explores the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
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