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 the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
issues
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
The latest
advances in
electronic education technology are enabling
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in online classes.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
online education institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
need
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
would like
to understand
these
new open educational
experiments.
Instructors want
to gain an understanding of how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational topics.
This inspiring new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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