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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
e-learning technology are providing the means for
humans
all around the world
to take part in online classes.
These MOOCs are
normally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can learners
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Libya to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
get a handle on
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to understand how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
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