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 this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
describes
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
advances in
online education have enabled
people
all over the world
to participate in classes online.
Massive open online courses are
ordinarily 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 a lot of
subjects that
online learning organizations
are having to deal with
more than ever because elearning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can we
make sure that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can institutions
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
get a handle on
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
necessity
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
promising new open educational
ventures.
Educators want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
need for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This book
also researches the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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