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 the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
deals with
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
gains in
digital education technology are empowering
humans
in nations all around the world
to be participants in classes online.
These massive online courses are
ordinarily 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 a lot of
topics that
learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can participants
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Case Western Reserve University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
abundant there is a
need
to understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
undertakings.
Teachers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
In response to this
growing
demand for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational topics.
This new book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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