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.
Find out more about this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
deals with
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
developments in
electronic educational technology have made it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
These MOOC classes are
ordinarily 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 quite a few
topics that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
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
Finland to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
developing
desire
to understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
initiatives.
Instructors want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
developing
need for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education subjects.
This definitive new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
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