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 interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
researches
issues
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
evolvements in
learning technology are enabling
people
all over 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.
Massively open online courses are
usually free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
learning technology institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Benin to conduct these MOOC courses?
How can institutions
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
demand
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Students want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
details
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This scholarly new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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