MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
distance learning technology have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massive open online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
elearning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can we
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Guinea-Bissau to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
manage problems like
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
demand
to grasp how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better comprehend
these
open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
desire for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education topics.
This exciting new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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