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 this informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
describes
topics
regarding open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
elearning are providing the means for
people
all around the world
to participate in online classes.
These massive open online courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
online learning institutions
are having to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can learners
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Saint Barthelemy to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
handle
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
necessity
to grasp how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
open educational
ventures.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
need for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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