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.
Learn more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
evolvements in
elearning have enabled
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
now that blended learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can students
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Excelsior College to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
handle
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
widespread there is a
desire
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
these
intriguing new open education
initiatives.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
growing
demand for
knowledge
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This interesting new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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