MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
reviews
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
developments in
distance learning are providing the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to take classes online.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are numerous
subjects that
online learning technology organizations
are having to consider
now that e-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
assure that
the education provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can organizations
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Students
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better comprehend
these
fascinating new open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to perceive how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
need for
data
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education topics.
This sensational new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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