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 the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
investigates
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
e-learning are empowering
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
developing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality control for these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to comprehend how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
these
new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
growing
desideratum for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This thrilling new book
also articulates the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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