MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
talks about
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
advances in
online learning make it possible for
humans
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
almost always free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
learning technology organizations
are dealing with
more than ever 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 institutions
assure that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
all right?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle problems like
poor
student motivation and high
attrition?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
need
to grasp how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
promising new open education
initiatives.
Researchers want
to comprehend how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
demand for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational issues.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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