MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
talks about
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advances in
distance learning are empowering
students
all over the world
to participate in online courses.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
Massively open online courses are
commonly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are quite a few
subjects that
blended learning organizations
are dealing with
today because elearning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
ensure that
the training provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can participants
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Marshall Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desire
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
these
important new open education
endeavours.
Researchers want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
expanding
demand for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This interesting new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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