MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
The latest
advancements in
online education technology have enabled
students
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
usually free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
online education organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desideratum
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to understand
these
promising new open educational
undertakings.
Universities want
to know how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
need for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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