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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
learning technology are enabling
students
in nations all around the world
to take part in courses online.
These online MOOC courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
distance learning organizations
have to consider
today because distance learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can participants
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Sri Lanka to conduct these MOOC classes?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
necessity
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to better understand how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
desire for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This dramatic new book
also deals with the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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