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 the fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
describes
topics
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
distance learning technology are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take classes via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a variety of
topics that
e-learning institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desire
to comprehend how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
demand for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This gripping new book
also investigates the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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