MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
examines
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
e-learning technology have provided the means for
humans
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
mostly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Rwaq to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
demand
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Students
and lots of other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
compelling new open educational
initiatives.
Public servants want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
desideratum for
facts
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This exciting new book
also researches the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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