MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
talks about
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
blended learning technology are empowering
people
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
These MOOC classes are
generally free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
have to consider
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can we
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Comoros to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
these
open education
ventures.
Students want
to comprehend how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
need for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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