MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 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 Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
gains in
elearning have made it possible for
people
all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive online courses are
normally 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 a lot of
subjects that
learning technology institutions
have to consider
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
ensure that
the education provided by these
MOOC classes is
passable?
How can organizations
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
handle
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to better understand how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
desire for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education topics.
This gripping new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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