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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
explores
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
developments in
online education technology are enabling
students
in nations all around the world
to be participants in classes online.
These massive open courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
online education institutions
have to deal with
now that learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment.
How can teachers
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can organizations
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
British Virgin Islands to conduct these MOOC classes?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle problems like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
necessity
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and lots of other
participants
want
to better grasp
these
new open educational
initiatives.
Academics want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education issues.
This book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
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