MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
studies
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
advancements in
electronic education technology have provided the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in online classes.
MOOC courses are
almost always 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 many
subjects that
e-learning organizations
are having to struggle with
now that distance learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
acceptable?
How can participants
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Wake Island to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
available there is a
need
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
these
important new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
increasing
demand for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This exciting new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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