MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
articulates
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
evolvements in
elearning are enabling
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These massive open courses are
usually free
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 a variety of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can educators
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can participants
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
necessity
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
participants
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
new open education
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Public servants want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource issues.
This book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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