MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
examines
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
distance learning technology are enabling
students
all around the world
to be participants in online courses.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massive open online courses are
generally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are quite a few
subjects that
elearning institutions
are having to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can participants
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Gabon to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
need
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
initiatives.
Universities want
to perceive how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To handle this
developing
demand for
facts
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This definitive new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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