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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
topics
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
changes in
online learning technology are making it possible for
learners
all around the world
to be participants in online courses.
MOOC courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
today because online education technology is
developing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can organizations
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
manage problems like
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
prolific there is a
desire
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to comprehend how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
desideratum for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also describes the
major 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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