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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
investigates
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
New
changes in
elearning technology are making it possible for
learners
in nations all around the world
to participate in classes online.
These online MOOC courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a lot of
topics that
distance learning organizations
are having to consider
today because elearning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
guarantee that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can students
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
iversity to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle issues like
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
these
fascinating new open education
ventures.
Trainers want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
developing
desire for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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