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 interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
improvements in
online learning have empowered
humans
in all parts of the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These MOOC classes are
mostly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
blended learning organizations
are having to consider
today because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
passable?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Open2Study to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
manage problems like
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
initiatives.
Scholars want
to grasp how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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