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 the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
evolvements in
learning technology have provided the means for
humans
in nations all aver the world
to take courses online.
These massive online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
e-learning institutions
are considering
now that online education technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can students
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
necessity
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
intriguing new open education
ventures.
Students want
to perceive how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
developing
desire for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
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