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 dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
addresses
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
electronic education technology are providing the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses online.
These massive online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
online learning organizations
must deal with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can we
assure that
the quality control for these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Arizona State University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
manage problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
necessity
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to grasp how
MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
desire for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This book
also researches the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
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