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
investigates
topics
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
improvements in
digital education technology have made it possible for
people
all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
usually free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
distance learning organizations
have to deal with
more than ever because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Malaysia to conduct these MOOC courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
demand
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Instructors want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
developing
desire for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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