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.
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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
articulates
topics
related to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
changes in
learning technology are enabling
people
in nations all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
almost always free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
passable?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
South Africa to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
handle problems like
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
undertakings.
Trainers want
to better understand how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
demand for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education subjects.
This stimulating new book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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