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 fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
addresses
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
New
advances in
elearning technology enable
people
all over the world
to take part in online courses.
These online MOOCs are
mostly free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online education institutions
are struggling with
now that 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 we
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can students
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to be aware of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
initiatives.
Corporations want
to grasp how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
desideratum for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also explores the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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