MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
deals with
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
improvements in
blended learning have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes online.
These online MOOCs are
almost always free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are several
subjects that
learning technology institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can participants
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desideratum
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
increasing
need for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This intriguing new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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