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 the exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
deals with
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
distance learning technology enable
learners
in every nation on earth
to take part in online courses.
Massive open online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can educators
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Facebook to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
manage
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desideratum
to understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
endeavours.
Instructors want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To meet this
developing
desideratum for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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