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 the exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
researches
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
changes in
learning technology have made it possible for
students
in every nation on earth
to take classes online.
These MOOC classes are
usually free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are having to attend to
today because learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
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
institutions like
UC San Diego to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
get a handle on
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
endeavours.
Instructors want
to know how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
developing
need for
knowledge
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This scholarly new book
also talks about the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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