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 the enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
articulates
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
advancements in
learning technology have made it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences.
There are quite a few
issues that
e-learning organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Mozambique to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
handle
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
need
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
demand for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This definitive new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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