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 compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
studies
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advancements in
elearning technology are empowering
people
in nations all aver the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning technology institutions
are dealing with
now that distance learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can learners
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
WizIQ to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage issues like
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desire
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
would like
to understand
these
important new open education
initiatives.
Academics want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues.
This new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
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