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 the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
describes
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
blended learning have enabled
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
elearning organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage issues like
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desire
to perceive how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
significant new open education
ventures.
Scientists want
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
demand for
details
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education topics.
This dramatic new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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