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.
Find out more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
distance learning have enabled
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
customarily free
for learners 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 quite a few
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so swiftly.
How can we
assure that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can students
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
need
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
developing
desideratum for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This dramatic new book
also explores the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
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