MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
describes
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
advancements in
distance learning technology have made it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can participants
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses.
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
demand
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
endeavours.
Lecturers want
to better understand how
these massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
desire for
information
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This intriguing new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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