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 this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
investigates
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
online education have empowered
learners
all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can participants
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Korea, South to conduct these MOOC classes?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
handle issues like
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
desideratum
to understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to better understand how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource issues.
This amazing new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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