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
examines
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
developments in
elearning technology have provided the means for
people
all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
distance learning organizations
are having to attend to
today because online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
iversity to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
manage issues like
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
desire
to better comprehend
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Everyone wants
to perceive how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
demand for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education subjects.
This inspiring new book
also deals with the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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