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.
Find out more about this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
New
gains in
distance learning technology enable
humans
all around the world
to take part in courses online.
Massive open online courses are
free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
distance learning organizations
are having to consider
today because distance learning technology is
advancing 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 schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can learners
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
NovoEd to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
these
open educational
initiatives.
Academics want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education topics.
This dramatic new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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