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.
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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
deals with
issues
relating to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
developments in
digital education technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online classes.
These massive open courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
e-learning institutions
have to deal with
now that online learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
guarantee that
the education provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can learners
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Princeton University to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better comprehend
these
significant new open education
initiatives.
Academics want
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
expanding
desire for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This thrilling new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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