MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
reviews
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
e-learning technology have empowered
humans
all over the world
to participate in courses online.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning institutions
have to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can institutions
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can educators
handle
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As online learning becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to perceive how
these massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
need for
facts
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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