MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
discusses
topics
having to do with open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
developments in
e-learning technology are enabling
learners
all around the world
to take part in courses online.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
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
online education organizations
are having to attend to
today because distance learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can organizations
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Clipperton Island to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desideratum
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
these
interesting new open education
ventures.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational topics.
This amazing new book
also researches the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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