MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
describes
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
advancements in
electronic education technology are enabling
people
all around the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are numerous
issues that
online learning institutions
have to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can learners
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Georgia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
handle problems like
poor
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Everyone wants
to understand how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
desideratum for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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