MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
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
edited collection
which
deals with
topics
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
evolvements in
elearning technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
ordinarily 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are quite a few
topics that
elearning organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Isle of Man to conduct these MOOC classes?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
important new open education
experiments.
Everyone wants
to better understand how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
desideratum for
facts
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education issues.
This gripping new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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