MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
analyzes
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
electronic educational technology are empowering
humans
in nations all around the world
to take classes online.
These online MOOC courses are
typically free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to consider
today because online learning technology is
developing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
assure that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Haiti to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
necessity
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
open education
initiatives.
Public servants want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
desideratum for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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