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 this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
distance learning are making it possible for
people
in nations all aver the world
to participate in online classes.
Massive open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
elearning institutions
are having to attend to
now that elearning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
manage
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to perceive how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
desire for
knowledge
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This inspiring new book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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