MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
investigates
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
learning technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning institutions
are having to consider
now that online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
get a handle on
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
promising new open education
ventures.
Instructors want
to know how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
need for
facts
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This amazing new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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