MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
studies
topics
relating to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Modern
evolvements in
digital education technology are providing the means for
students
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These MOOCs are
generally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are several
issues that
elearning technology institutions
are having to attend to
today because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Honduras to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
important new open educational
undertakings.
Researchers want
to comprehend how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
expanding
need for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This interesting new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources.
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