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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
addresses
issues
relating to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
learning technology have made it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education.
Massive open online courses are
generally free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
have to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can learners
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Harvard University to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
need
to better understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This intriguing new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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