MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
talks about
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
blended learning technology are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
generally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
e-learning organizations
are struggling with
now that e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
assure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can organizations
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Princeton University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
manage
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
these
intriguing new open education
initiatives.
Everyone wants
to gain an understanding of how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
demand for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education issues.
This intriguing new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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