MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
reviews
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
online education technology have enabled
learners
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online courses.
These MOOC courses are
typically free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are numerous
topics that
online learning organizations
have to deal with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
make sure that
the schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can organizations
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Pakistan to conduct these massive open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
get a handle on
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desire
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
these
open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
desire for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This sensational new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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