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 edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
talks about
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
online education are making it possible for
people
in nations all aver the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
MOOCs are
usually free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a variety of
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can we
assure that
the education provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can we
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Solomon Islands to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desideratum
to perceive how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to perceive how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To respond to this
expanding
demand for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education subjects.
This interesting new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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