MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
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
edited collection
that
talks about
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
developments in
online learning technology are empowering
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes online.
These massive open online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Brown University to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
get a handle on
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
desire
to perceive how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to better understand how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
details
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This definitive new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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