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 fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
reviews
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advancements in
distance learning are enabling
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so fast.
How can educators
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
handle
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
desire
to comprehend how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
participants
need
to better comprehend
these
new open educational
ventures.
Corporations want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
information
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational issues.
This intriguing new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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