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 this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
online education have enabled
people
all around the world
to take online courses.
These massive open courses are
generally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can learners
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to perceive how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
important new open education
endeavours.
Lecturers want
to perceive how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
need for
details
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This thrilling new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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