MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
talks about
issues
related to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
distance learning technology enable
people
in nations all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are numerous
issues that
learning technology organizations
are considering
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can we
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desideratum
to perceive how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
promising new open educational
initiatives.
Teachers want
to comprehend how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics.
This interesting new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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