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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
discusses
issues
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advancements in
electronic education technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
generally free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
distance learning organizations
are having to consider
now that learning technology is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can participants
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
handle issues like
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
want
to better understand
these
new open education
ventures.
Trainers want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
desire for
details
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This definitive new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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