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 the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
explores
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
changes in
online education technology have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to take classes online.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a lot of
topics that
online learning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because elearning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can organizations
certify that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can we
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Antigua and Barbuda to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
desideratum
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to better understand how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
developing
desideratum for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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