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 the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
topics
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
advancements in
online learning technology are providing the means for
humans
in nations all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
blended learning organizations
are considering
more than ever because distance learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can learners
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
manage problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desideratum
to comprehend how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
participants
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
ventures.
Teachers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
developing
need for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education subjects.
This interesting new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources.
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