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 thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
talks about
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
gains in
e-learning make it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massively 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 a variety of
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
now that distance learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can educators
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can organizations
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
abundant there is a
need
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
participants
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Instructors want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
increasing
need for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also discusses the
key 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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