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.
Learn more about the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
talks about
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
changes in
blended learning technology have provided the means for
people
in nations all aver the world
to be participants in courses online.
These massive open courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning institutions
have to struggle with
now that distance learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
all right?
How can students
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Wesleyan University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desire
to be aware of how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
stakeholders
need
to understand
these
new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
need for
details
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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