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 compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
investigates
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
online education technology have empowered
students
in every nation on earth
to participate in online classes.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These massive online courses are
commonly 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 variety of
subjects that
online learning organizations
are having to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can learners
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
The John Marshall Law School to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
desideratum
to understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to perceive how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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