MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
online education technology are empowering
humans
in nations all aver the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
almost always free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are many
subjects that
distance learning organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can institutions
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Costa Rica to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desire
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
want
to better grasp
these
open educational
endeavours.
Public servants want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
desire for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This definitive new book
also researches the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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