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 the significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
analyzes
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
advances in
electronic educational technology are providing the means for
students
all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
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 several
topics that
online education organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can teachers
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can students
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Otis College of Art and Design to conduct these MOOC courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
get a handle on
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
necessity
to be aware of how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Scientists want
to comprehend how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
desire for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational topics.
This stimulating new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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