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 Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
changes in
distance learning technology enable
students
in nations all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
These massive open online courses are
normally free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
online learning institutions
have to struggle with
more than ever because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
French Guiana to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses.
How can we
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to be aware of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
these
exciting new open education
endeavours.
Scholars want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
desire for
details
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
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