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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
technology-enhanced learning are empowering
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes online.
These massive open courses are
generally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
blended learning organizations
have to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
developing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
ensure that
the education provided by these
MOOC classes is
passable?
How can learners
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to perceive how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education subjects.
This intriguing new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
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