MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
reviews
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
blended learning technology have enabled
students
in nations all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These MOOCs are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are quite a few
topics that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are considering
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of training provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
California Institute of the Arts to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
demand
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
endeavours.
Trainers want
to know how
these MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To handle this
expanding
demand for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education issues.
This definitive new book
also explores the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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