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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
developments in
e-learning technology have enabled
humans
all around the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
distance learning institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Abkhazia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
available there is a
developing
desideratum
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
In response to this
developing
desire for
data
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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