MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
studies
issues
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
developments in
online learning have made it possible for
students
in every nation on earth
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These massive online courses are
free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
elearning organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the education provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can organizations
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Saint Helena to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
expanding
need for
details
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education subjects.
This book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources.
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