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 appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
articulates
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
distance learning have enabled
people
all around the world
to be participants in classes online.
Massively open online courses are
free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
demand
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
endeavours.
Teachers want
to comprehend how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To respond to this
increasing
demand for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education issues.
This book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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