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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
topics
relating to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
changes in
learning technology have empowered
students
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes online.
Massively open online courses are
generally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
blended learning institutions
have to deal with
now that learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can students
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Botswana to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
manage problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
demand
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
open education
ventures.
Educators want
to gain an understanding of how
these massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
knowledge
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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