MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
talks about
subjects
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
advances in
digital education technology have provided the means for
people
all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
These online MOOCs are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education organizations
are having to attend to
more than ever because distance learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can learners
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Vanuatu to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses.
How can institutions
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
ventures.
Intellectuals want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education topics.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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