MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
explores
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
developments in
online education are making it possible for
students
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
These MOOC classes are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
learning technology institutions
are dealing with
today because learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality control for these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can organizations
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
United States to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
handle issues like
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
necessity
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Scientists want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
need for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This dramatic new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources.
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