MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advances in
online learning technology enable
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students 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 many
topics that
e-learning institutions
have to deal with
today because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so swiftly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Estonia to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Trainers
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to better grasp
these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Trainers want
to gain an understanding of how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
desire for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This sensational new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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