MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
examines
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
improvements in
digital education technology have enabled
learners
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These MOOC classes are
typically free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can we
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Central Florida to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses.
How can participants
deal with
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As elearning becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desideratum
to grasp how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
promising new open education
endeavours.
Intellectuals want
to understand how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
desire for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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