MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
investigates
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advancements in
electronic education technology make it possible for
students
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massive open online courses are
usually free
for learners 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 lot of
subjects that
elearning technology institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can students
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
available there is a
growing
need
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to grasp how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
need for
data
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education subjects.
This authoritative new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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