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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
describes
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
advancements in
learning technology have provided the means for
learners
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses online.
These MOOC courses are
usually free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning organizations
have to consider
today because online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
certify that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can participants
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
United Arab Emirates to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
need
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
desire
to understand
these
open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to better understand how
these MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To handle this
expanding
desire for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
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