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 interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
articulates
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
blended learning technology are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
MOOC classes are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can learners
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Bermuda to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
necessity
to understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
endeavours.
Lecturers want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
crescive
need for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This authoritative new book
also deals with the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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