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 illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
discusses
topics
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
evolvements in
electronic educational technology make it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online learning organizations
have to deal with
today because online learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
ensure that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can we
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As online education becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
demand
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
developing
desire for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This authoritative new book
also addresses the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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