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 the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
electronic educational technology are enabling
learners
all around the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
Massive open online courses are
commonly free
for students 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 several
topics that
e-learning organizations
have to struggle with
today because online education technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Chad to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desideratum
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
knowledge
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This authoritative new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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