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 this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
examines
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
gains in
e-learning technology have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to take classes online.
MOOC courses are
generally free
for students 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 many
issues that
distance learning organizations
are struggling with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can participants
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As online education becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
desideratum
to be aware of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
open education
endeavours.
Intellectuals want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
increasing
desideratum for
details
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational issues.
This thrilling new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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