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 the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
articulates
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
changes in
online education have provided the means for
students
in nations all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
Massively open online courses are
generally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a variety of
topics that
online education institutions
must deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
advancing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can learners
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
demand
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Trainers want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
developing
desire for
data
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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