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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
analyzes
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
developments in
online learning technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
MOOCs are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
distance learning organizations
are having to consider
today because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
make sure that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can learners
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Venezuela to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
need
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to comprehend how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
increasing
desire for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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