MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
blended learning technology have provided the means for
humans
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are quite a few
subjects that
e-learning institutions
have to deal with
now that blended learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can institutions
make sure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can we
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Washington to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
need
to grasp how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to perceive how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
desideratum for
information
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This amazing new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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