MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
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 is a
book
that
explores
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
electronic education technology are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
online education organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can learners
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Timor-Leste (East Timor) to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
necessity
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
new open education
ventures.
Instructors want
to better understand how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
desideratum for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education issues.
This interesting new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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