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 fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
investigates
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
gains in
elearning technology are making it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
typically free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
distance learning institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
assure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Emory University to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
necessity
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
compelling new open education
initiatives.
Researchers want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
developing
desideratum for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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