MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
online learning enable
humans
all over the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
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 variety of
subjects that
learning technology organizations
are considering
more than ever because distance learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can learners
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Vanuatu to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
get a handle on
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As electronic education technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desire
to perceive how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to grasp how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
expanding
demand for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education issues.
This intriguing new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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