MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
articulates
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
distance learning technology have made it possible for
humans
all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
MOOC classes are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
online education institutions
have to consider
now that elearning technology is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
guarantee that
the education provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can learners
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
handle issues like
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
necessity
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
these
exciting new open education
undertakings.
Everybody wants
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
demand for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education subjects.
This dramatic new book
also talks about the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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