MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
online education technology are making it possible for
learners
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
MOOC classes are
free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
distance learning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
guarantee that
the education provided by these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can participants
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Boston University to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
manage problems like
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
participants
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
increasing
need for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This amazing new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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