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 this engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
blended learning make it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
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.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can participants
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Ethiopia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
necessity
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
new open education
ventures.
Students want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
increasing
desire for
facts
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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