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.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
researches
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
gains in
e-learning enable
students
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
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 quite a few
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOC courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
these
exciting new open educational
ventures.
Scholars want
to know how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
desire for
facts
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This thrilling new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
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