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
book
which
considers
issues
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
improvements in
blended learning have provided the means for
students
in all parts of the world
to take online classes.
These online MOOCs are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
distance learning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can institutions
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Turkmenistan to conduct these MOOC classes?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
desideratum
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to grasp how
MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
developing
desideratum for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This exciting new book
also explores the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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