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 the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
improvements in
digital education technology have enabled
learners
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
These online MOOCs are
mostly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
elearning technology institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can teachers
certify that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Somaliland to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
handle issues like
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desire
to perceive how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
important new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
demand for
information
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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