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.
Find out more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
studies
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
digital education technology enable
students
in all parts of the world
to take part in online classes.
This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning.
Massive open online courses are
typically free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
e-learning institutions
are having to deal with
today because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can learners
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Wallis and Futuna to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
developing
desire
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
growing
need for
information
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This gripping new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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