MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
articulates
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
e-learning technology have empowered
learners
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
MOOC classes are
mostly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
online learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
more than ever because elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
make sure that
the education provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can learners
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Alfred State College of Technology - SUNY to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to grasp how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
demand for
information
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This stimulating new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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