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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
addresses
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advancements in
technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
generally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a lot of
subjects that
learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can teachers
make sure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can we
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Peninsula College to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
desire
to perceive how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to grasp how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
increasing
desire for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This interesting new book
also addresses the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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