MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
improvements in
distance learning technology have empowered
students
all around the world
to participate in online classes.
These massive online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are many
subjects that
online education organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can we
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Australia to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
participants
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
developing
desideratum for
knowledge
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education issues.
This dramatic new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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