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.
Learn more about this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
deals with
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
New
advances in
distance learning technology have enabled
humans
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses 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.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
elearning institutions
are having to deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can students
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
United Kingdom to conduct these MOOCs?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
manage
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
available there is a
growing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
open educational
initiatives.
Instructors want
to perceive how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
desire for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education topics.
This interesting new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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