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 fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
studies
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
gains in
e-learning technology have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
generally free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
online learning organizations
have to struggle with
now that learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
all right?
How can students
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Burundi to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
handle problems like
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
undertakings.
Academics want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This gripping new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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