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 the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
reviews
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
digital education technology enable
learners
in nations all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online learning technology organizations
are having to consider
now that e-learning technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality control for these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can participants
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Clipperton Island to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
demand
to perceive how
MOOCs are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Teachers
and lots of other
participants
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
new open educational
endeavours.
Researchers want
to perceive how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
increasing
demand for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This stimulating new book
also considers 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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