MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
addresses
topics
relating to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
e-learning technology are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massively open online courses are
usually free
for learners 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
blended learning institutions
are having to consider
now that elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can learners
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Equatorial Guinea to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
desire
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to better perceive
these
important new open education
experiments.
Trainers want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
need for
details
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics.
This book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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