MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
improvements in
online education technology are empowering
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in online classes.
These massive open online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
distance learning organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can organizations
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
edX to conduct these MOOC classes?
Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses.
How can educators
get a handle on
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
need
to better understand
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
demand for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This sensational new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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