MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
considers
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
electronic educational technology are making it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online courses.
This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education.
Massively open online courses are
free
for students 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 several
issues that
elearning technology organizations
must deal with
more than ever because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
make sure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can institutions
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
necessity
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to better understand how
MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
growing
demand for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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