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 this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
deals with
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
e-learning technology have made it possible for
people
in nations all aver the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
elearning technology organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Kirkwood Community College to conduct these MOOC classes?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to comprehend how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to understand how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
need for
information
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This gripping new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
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