MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
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 is a
edited collection
which
considers
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
developments in
technology-enhanced learning enable
people
in nations all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
e-learning institutions
have to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can institutions
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desire
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
want
to understand
these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Trainers want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
In response to this
growing
desire for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational topics.
This authoritative new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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