MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
investigates
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
e-learning have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to be participants in online courses.
Massive open online courses are
free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
e-learning organizations
are struggling with
today because online learning technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
ensure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can we
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Netherlands to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
need
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
participants
need
to better perceive
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
growing
desire for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This definitive new book
also researches the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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