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 this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
The latest
advancements in
elearning technology are enabling
students
all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
typically free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online education institutions
have to struggle with
today because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
assure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can learners
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
United States to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses.
How can participants
manage issues like
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
desideratum for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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