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 authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
analyzes
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
changes in
online learning are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning technology institutions
are dealing with
now that distance learning technology is
developing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can organizations
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Libya to conduct these MOOC classes?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
manage issues like
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
need
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better comprehend
these
open education
ventures.
Researchers want
to understand how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
increasing
demand for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also explores the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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