MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
improvements in
e-learning technology are empowering
students
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes online.
Massive open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
distance learning organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because learning technology is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can we
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
manage problems like
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
necessity
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
ventures.
Scientists want
to better understand how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
In response to this
increasing
desire for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This inspiring new book
also talks about the
key controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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