MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
studies
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
e-learning enable
people
all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
generally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are quite a few
issues that
blended learning institutions
must deal with
now that learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can institutions
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Navassa Island to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
handle problems like
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
open educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
increasing
desire for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This dramatic new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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