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 cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
describes
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
developments in
online education technology are making it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to take part in online courses.
These online MOOCs are
commonly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning institutions
are having to struggle with
more than ever because online education technology is
developing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
make sure that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can stakeholders
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
manage issues like
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
necessity
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
participants
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to know how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
In response to this
developing
desire for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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