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
book
which
discusses
issues
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
New
gains in
blended learning technology are making it possible for
humans
in nations all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can educators
certify that
the training provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can organizations
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
handle problems like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
participants
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to better understand how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
developing
desire for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This new book
also analyzes the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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