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 engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
articulates
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
e-learning technology are empowering
learners
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes via the Internet.
This MOOCs book also analyzes the motivational variables involved in self-directed learning experiences.
These massively open online courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
have to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
be assured that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can students
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
these
intriguing new open education
endeavours.
Lecturers want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
developing
desire for
data
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education resource topics.
This amazing new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
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