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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
studies
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
improvements in
digital education technology are enabling
students
all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning institutions
must deal with
today because distance learning technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
procurable there is a
demand
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Students
and many other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
initiatives.
Academics want
to comprehend how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
need for
knowledge
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource topics.
This thrilling new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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