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 the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
gains in
blended learning have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
normally 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
topics that
online education institutions
are having to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality control for these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can participants
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As online education becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desideratum
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
growing
desideratum for
knowledge
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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