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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
related to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Recent
advances in
digital education technology have made it possible for
learners
all around the world
to take online courses.
These massive open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
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 a lot of
topics that
online learning technology institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can organizations
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can institutions
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Lebanon to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
desire
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to better understand how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To handle this
desire for
details
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This scholarly new book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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