MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
investigates
topics
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
improvements in
online education technology have made it possible for
learners
all over the world
to take online classes.
These MOOC courses are
normally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
e-learning institutions
have to deal with
today because e-learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of training provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can participants
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
handle issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desideratum
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
participants
would like
to better perceive
these
interesting new open educational
undertakings.
Scientists want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This authoritative new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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