MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
describes
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
evolvements in
distance learning make it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These online MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
now that elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
certify that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can participants
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Cocos (Keeling) Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Everyone wants
to perceive how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
need for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This gripping new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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