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 this definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
considers
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
New
advancements in
online learning are empowering
students
all over the world
to participate in classes online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These massive open online courses are
customarily free
for learners 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
topics that
learning technology institutions
are struggling with
more than ever because elearning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Bowling Green State University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
widespread there is a
developing
demand
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
increasing
desire for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
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