MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
discusses
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
improvements in
distance learning technology have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
almost always free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
online learning institutions
are struggling with
now that elearning technology is
developing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can learners
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Rwaq to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
available there is a
developing
desire
to understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
participants
want
to better understand
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to better understand how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
demand for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This stimulating new book
also talks about the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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