MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
electronic education technology are providing the means for
learners
all over the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These online MOOC courses are
generally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning organizations
are dealing with
today because learning technology is
developing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
be assured that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can students
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
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
institutions like
Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desideratum
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
participants
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
initiatives.
Scientists want
to understand how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
need for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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