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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
New
improvements in
online education technology are providing the means for
learners
in every nation on earth
to take courses online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
These massive online courses are
free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning institutions
have to struggle with
now that learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can organizations
be assured that
the training provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can learners
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Boston University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
handle
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
need
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
People want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics.
This gripping new book
also researches the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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