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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
explores
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
improvements in
distance learning have made it possible for
humans
all around the world
to be participants in classes online.
These online MOOCs are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online learning institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can participants
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Kuwait to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
demand for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also talks about the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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