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 Around the World is a
edited collection
which
talks about
topics
regarding open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
changes in
learning technology are making it possible for
students
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses online.
These online MOOC courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
online education organizations
are considering
today because elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can participants
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses.
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to grasp how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
desire for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education topics.
This amazing new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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