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 this cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
analyzes
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
digital education technology have enabled
learners
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These MOOCs are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online education institutions
have to consider
today because e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can participants
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
procurable there is a
desire
to better understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
participants
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
initiatives.
Academics want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education topics.
This intriguing new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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