MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
articulates
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
electronic educational technology have enabled
people
in nations all aver the world
to participate in courses online.
These online MOOCs are
commonly free
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 numerous
topics that
distance learning institutions
are having to consider
now that distance learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can we
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
participants
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Scientists want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education topics.
This interesting new book
also explores the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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