MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
technology-enhanced learning are empowering
students
all around the world
to be participants in online courses.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
These massively open online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
online learning organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can students
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Utah Valley University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
deal with
low
motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
these
significant new open educational
endeavours.
Instructors want
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also investigates the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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