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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
gains in
distance learning technology enable
humans
all over the world
to participate in online classes.
These massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
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 lot of
issues that
distance learning organizations
are struggling with
today because online learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
assure that
the education provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can organizations
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
handle
poor
motivation and high
attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to be aware of how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to better perceive
these
important new open education
endeavours.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
desire for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This definitive new book
also explores the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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