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.
Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
topics
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
evolvements in
distance learning technology are empowering
people
in nations all aver the world
to be participants in online courses.
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 massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online education organizations
are dealing with
now that learning technology is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can learners
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Bosnia and Herzegovina to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
desire
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better comprehend
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to know how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
need for
knowledge
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics.
This stimulating new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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