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 this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
evolvements in
electronic education technology are making it possible for
students
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These online MOOCs are
usually free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
elearning technology institutions
must deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can participants
assure that
the training provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can participants
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
handle problems like
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
demand
to grasp how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
new open educational
endeavours.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To meet this
desideratum for
facts
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This dramatic new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources.
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