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 this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
articulates
issues
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
developments in
online learning have provided the means for
people
all around the world
to take part in classes online.
These online MOOCs are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
learning technology institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can participants
be assured that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can students
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
United States to conduct these MOOC classes?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
necessity
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
developing
desire for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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