MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
New
gains in
learning technology are providing the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to be participants in classes online.
Massive open online courses are
typically free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can participants
ensure that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
need
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
stakeholders
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
People want
to perceive how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To handle this
desire for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational issues.
This definitive new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
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