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.
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MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
deals with
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
evolvements in
digital education technology are empowering
learners
all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
These massive open courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
assure that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
get a handle on
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
participants
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
increasing
demand for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education topics.
This scholarly new book
also addresses the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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