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
which
deals with
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
online education technology are providing the means for
students
all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
These massive open online courses are
usually free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
more than ever because blended learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
certify that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can institutions
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Ascension to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
need
to perceive how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
endeavours.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
details
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This scholarly new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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