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 this dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
investigates
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advancements in
elearning enable
learners
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning.
These massive open online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
distance learning institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can learners
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Botswana to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to grasp how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
these
open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
desideratum for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This definitive new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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