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 dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
gains in
distance learning technology have provided the means for
students
in nations all aver the world
to take part in courses online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
learning technology organizations
must deal with
today because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can teachers
ensure that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Ghana to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
manage problems like
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to better understand how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To respond to this
desideratum for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This dramatic new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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