MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
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 is a
edited collection
that
talks about
issues
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
The latest
advances in
online education have provided the means for
students
in nations all around the world
to take courses online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
MOOC classes are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are many
subjects that
online education organizations
must deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
demand
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
increasing
need for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This book
also articulates the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources.
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