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 cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
explores
topics
regarding open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
New
changes in
learning technology make it possible for
people
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
These MOOC classes are
typically free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a variety of
issues that
learning technology institutions
have to consider
more than ever because online education technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
ensure that
the education provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can learners
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
India to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desire
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
endeavours.
Scientists want
to grasp how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
increasing
need for
details
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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