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.
Learn more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
advances in
technology-enhanced learning have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
These massively open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are several
issues that
elearning technology institutions
are dealing with
now that online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can organizations
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Jamaica to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
manage issues like
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
participants
desire
to be more aware of
these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
need for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also articulates the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources.
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