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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
considers
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advances in
distance learning technology have empowered
people
all over the world
to be participants in online courses.
These online MOOCs are
commonly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
elearning technology institutions
have to struggle with
more than ever because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can we
make sure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Concordia University Wisconsin to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
demand
to perceive how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
these
significant new open education
initiatives.
Trainers want
to know how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
In response to this
need for
facts
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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