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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
reviews
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
online education technology have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
These massively open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a lot of
subjects that
elearning technology institutions
are having to consider
now that online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can participants
ensure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
passable?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
French Polynesia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage issues like
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
demand
to grasp how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to understand
these
open education
endeavours.
Researchers want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
need for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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