MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
deals with
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
changes in
online education technology have provided the means for
students
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can students
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Harvard University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
fascinating new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
need for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This authoritative new book
also analyzes the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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