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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
studies
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
improvements in
distance learning technology enable
humans
in all parts of the world
to take online classes.
These massive open online courses are
commonly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
e-learning organizations
are having to consider
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
be assured that
the training provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
manage
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
need
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
participants
want
to better comprehend
these
new open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to know how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
desideratum for
knowledge
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This intriguing new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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