MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
examines
topics
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
evolvements in
online learning technology have enabled
learners
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
Massively open online courses are
commonly free
for students 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
topics that
e-learning organizations
are struggling with
today because learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can institutions
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Jamaica to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
attrition?
As digital educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
demand
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to know how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
demand for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education subjects.
This amazing new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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