MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
talks about
subjects
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
advances in
online education technology have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
MOOCs are
usually free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
today because e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Cambodia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
ventures.
Academics want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational topics.
This inspiring new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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