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 the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
issues
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
e-learning have empowered
people
all over the world
to be participants in online courses.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massive open online courses are
typically free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
now that learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the quality of training provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Harvard University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses.
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to grasp how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to perceive how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
developing
demand for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This intriguing new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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