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 the fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
topics
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
digital education technology have empowered
people
all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
Massive open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
e-learning organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Stanford Online to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
get a handle on
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
available there is a
growing
desideratum
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
People want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
In response to this
growing
desideratum for
information
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education topics.
This exciting new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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