MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
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
book
that
describes
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
New
advances in
electronic education technology are providing the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to take online classes.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These MOOCs are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are struggling with
more than ever because elearning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can educators
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can participants
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
China, People's Republic of to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
get a handle on
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
necessity
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
participants
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
endeavours.
Researchers want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This inspiring new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
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