MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
online education have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses online.
These massive open courses are
generally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to consider
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can learners
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Serbia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
manage issues like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
necessity
to understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to understand how
MOOCs
can be improved.
In response to this
developing
desideratum for
information
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This interesting new book
also addresses the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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