MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
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 is a
edited collection
which
reviews
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
evolvements in
e-learning are making it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
Massively open online courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
today because online learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
be assured that
the training provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can participants
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
FutureLearn to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
demand
to grasp how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to grasp how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
developing
desideratum for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This exciting new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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