MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
investigates
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
distance learning technology are enabling
humans
in every nation on earth
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to deal with
more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
be assured that
the education provided by these
massive open online courses is
all right?
How can learners
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
manage issues like
low
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
endeavours.
Students want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
desire for
details
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This exciting new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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