MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
evolvements in
e-learning have enabled
people
all over the world
to take online classes.
These online MOOCs are
almost always free
for learners 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 a lot of
subjects that
e-learning organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can we
certify that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can institutions
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
handle
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to know how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education subjects.
This stimulating new book
also investigates the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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