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 this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
talks about
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
changes in
online learning are providing the means for
people
all around the world
to participate in online courses.
These massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can organizations
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Georgia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
get a handle on
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open educational
endeavours.
Everybody wants
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
expanding
desire for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This amazing new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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