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 this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
online education technology make it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take online classes.
These MOOC courses are
generally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
New Caledonia to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can educators
handle problems like
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
desideratum
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
undertakings.
Teachers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
need for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics.
This interesting new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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