MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 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 Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
issues
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
blended learning technology are providing the means for
people
all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These MOOCs are
almost always 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 numerous
subjects that
online education institutions
have to consider
today because elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
all right?
How can institutions
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Austria to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
initiatives.
Researchers want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
developing
desideratum for
details
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics.
This new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
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