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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
examines
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
changes in
distance learning have empowered
learners
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
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 a lot of
topics that
online education organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can educators
make sure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can students
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
get a handle on
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
endeavours.
Lecturers want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
demand for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational subjects.
This interesting new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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