MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
reviews
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
electronic education technology are providing the means for
humans
in nations all around the world
to participate in online courses.
MOOCs are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
technology-enhanced 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
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
The Pennsylvania State University to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage issues like
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desire
to grasp how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Everyone wants
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This definitive new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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