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 fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
online education are enabling
humans
all over the world
to be participants in online classes.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These online MOOC courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
distance learning institutions
are dealing with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
improving so fast.
How can teachers
make sure that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Germany to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
desideratum
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This thrilling new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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