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 the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
explores
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
e-learning are enabling
students
in nations all aver the world
to participate in courses online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massive open online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
e-learning organizations
are considering
today because online education technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can participants
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Poland to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desideratum
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
participants
desire
to be more aware of
these
fascinating new open educational
endeavours.
Teachers want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
developing
desire for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational topics.
This thrilling new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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