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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
examines
topics
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
online education have provided the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to be participants in online courses.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These MOOCs are
almost always free
for students 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
issues that
distance learning organizations
are dealing with
today because elearning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can teachers
make sure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Austria to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As electronic education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
need
to perceive how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
ventures.
Teachers want
to know how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To handle this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This intriguing new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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