MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
deals with
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
online education technology are empowering
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
These online MOOCs are
almost always free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
learning technology organizations
are struggling with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
ensure that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can participants
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Turkmenistan to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
get a handle on
low
motivation and high
attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
necessity
to be aware of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
promising new open education
initiatives.
Universities want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
need for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational topics.
This definitive new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources.
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