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 edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
describes
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
improvements in
electronic educational technology have enabled
students
in nations all aver the world
to participate in online courses.
These MOOC courses are
almost always 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are numerous
issues that
distance learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so fast.
How can organizations
be assured that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can institutions
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Rwanda to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can educators
get a handle on
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As electronic education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Students want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To handle this
developing
demand for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education subjects.
This interesting new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
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