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 this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
examines
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
distance learning technology are empowering
learners
in nations all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
learning technology institutions
are having to consider
now that learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education.
How can institutions
be assured that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can students
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Wake Island to conduct these MOOCs?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
get a handle on
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desire
to perceive how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
desideratum for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This exciting new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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