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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
changes in
elearning technology have empowered
people
all around the world
to be participants in online courses.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
Massive open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
make sure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can learners
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As online education becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desideratum
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
exciting new open educational
undertakings.
Everyone wants
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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