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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
describes
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
changes in
e-learning have provided the means for
humans
in all parts of the world
to participate in online classes.
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.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
online education institutions
must deal with
now that online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
make sure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can institutions
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
developing
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
participants
desire
to understand
these
significant new open educational
ventures.
Academics want
to better understand how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
desideratum for
details
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS).
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