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.
Learn more about this fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
regarding open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
changes in
online education are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
elearning organizations
have to consider
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
ensure that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can students
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to understand
these
significant new open education
ventures.
Instructors want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
developing
need for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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