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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
talks about
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
improvements in
elearning technology are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
Massively open online courses are
usually free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
be assured that
the education provided by these
MOOC courses is
all right?
How can students
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Harvard University to conduct these MOOC classes?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
handle
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to better understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better perceive
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to better understand how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
need for
facts
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education subjects.
This book
also talks about the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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