MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
advances in
e-learning have provided the means for
learners
all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
commonly free
for students 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 quite a few
issues that
online learning organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so quickly.
How can participants
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
all right?
How can we
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Canada to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
necessity
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and numerous other
participants
want
to be more aware of
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
need for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education topics.
This scholarly new book
also talks about the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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