MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
addresses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
gains in
electronic educational technology enable
learners
in nations all around the world
to take classes online.
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 massive open online courses are
typically free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
make sure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can organizations
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Harvard University to conduct these MOOC classes?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
handle issues like
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
need
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
these
open educational
endeavours.
Everybody wants
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
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