MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
developments in
online education are providing the means for
people
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
almost always 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 numerous
issues that
distance learning institutions
are dealing with
today because distance learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can we
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Arizona State University to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to comprehend how
MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
expanding
desire for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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