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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
deals with
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
advances in
online education are providing the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
online education organizations
must deal with
now that online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
make sure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can organizations
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
manage issues like
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
need
to better understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Students
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
these
new open education
ventures.
Lecturers want
to perceive how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
desideratum for
information
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education subjects.
This inspiring new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
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