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 illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
addresses
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
evolvements in
online education technology are empowering
learners
in nations all aver the world
to take online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
almost always free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are numerous
subjects that
learning technology institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
demand
to be aware of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
these
important new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to comprehend how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
desideratum for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues.
This book
also examines the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
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