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 edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
investigates
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
online education have enabled
people
all around the world
to participate in courses online.
These massive open online courses are
free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online learning technology institutions
are struggling with
today because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so swiftly.
How can educators
make sure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
these
new open educational
endeavours.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
desire for
information
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This intriguing new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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