MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
distance learning make it possible for
students
in every nation on earth
to take courses online.
These massively open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a variety of
subjects that
elearning organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
handle problems like
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
demand
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better grasp
these
promising new open education
undertakings.
Students want
to know how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
need for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This inspiring new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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