MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
changes in
learning technology are making it possible for
learners
in nations all around the world
to be participants in classes online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning.
These MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
today because learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can participants
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
necessity
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
new open educational
ventures.
Scholars want
to comprehend how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
desideratum for
knowledge
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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