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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
changes in
digital education technology have provided the means for
students
all over the world
to participate in online classes.
These massive open courses are
normally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
learning technology institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can students
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
need
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
undertakings.
Instructors want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
demand for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This gripping new book
also analyzes the
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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