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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
considers
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
improvements in
distance learning technology have empowered
humans
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
MOOCs are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
e-learning organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can students
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Nicaragua to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
manage
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
necessity
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
these
important new open education
endeavours.
People want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
desideratum for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects.
This new book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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