MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
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
which
researches
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
developments in
elearning technology are providing the means for
people
all over the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online education institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
manage
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
desideratum
to be aware of how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
these
open education
endeavours.
Public servants want
to comprehend how
these MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
increasing
desideratum for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education topics.
This book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources.
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