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 exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
describes
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
advances in
electronic education technology have enabled
people
all over the world
to take part in classes online.
These online MOOCs are
commonly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
online education institutions
are having to consider
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can students
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Palmyra Atoll to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
get a handle on
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
desire
to grasp how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
crescive
demand for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This exciting new book
also analyzes the
key controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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