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.
Learn more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
explores
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
advancements in
learning technology are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
MOOC classes are
usually free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a variety of
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
now that distance learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can organizations
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Johnston Atoll to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
demand
to grasp how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
want
to understand
these
promising new open education
endeavours.
Educators want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
facts
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This interesting new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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