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 the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
deals with
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
changes in
electronic education technology are enabling
people
all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
typically free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
e-learning institutions
have to consider
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can students
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
necessity
to perceive how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
open education
ventures.
Scientists want
to perceive how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To respond to this
expanding
demand for
knowledge
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education subjects.
This definitive new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
massive open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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