MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
reviews
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
electronic education technology are empowering
people
in nations all aver the world
to participate in online classes.
These online MOOC courses are
almost always free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are several
topics that
online education institutions
are having to consider
in 2015 because elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
make sure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can participants
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
manage issues like
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
necessity
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
these
significant new open educational
endeavours.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
need for
facts
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education issues.
This dramatic new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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