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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
developments in
elearning have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online classes.
These MOOCs are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
must deal with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can we
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Kentucky to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
desire
to better perceive
these
open educational
experiments.
Students want
to understand how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To meet this
developing
desideratum for
knowledge
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education subjects.
This authoritative new book
also investigates the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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