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 thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
deals with
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advancements in
e-learning are enabling
students
in all parts of the world
to take online classes.
This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a lot of
issues that
learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
How can teachers
make sure that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can organizations
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
UC San Diego to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desideratum
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Instructors want
to perceive how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
increasing
desire for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also explores the
key controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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