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 the edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
talks about
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
distance learning have provided the means for
learners
all over the world
to participate in online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
now that learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can organizations
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to better understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to perceive how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
details
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This gripping new book
also explores the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
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