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 exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
describes
issues
regarding open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
online education technology have enabled
learners
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so swiftly.
How can educators
make sure that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
initiatives.
Researchers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To handle this
need for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This exciting new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
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