MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
examines
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
online learning technology have enabled
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online education institutions
are having to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can participants
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Broward College to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desideratum
to perceive how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
demand for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This intriguing new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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