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 cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
issues
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
technology-enhanced learning enable
people
all over the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
usually free
for learners but do not
always
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
are struggling with
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of training provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Minnesota to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning becomes more
available there is a
growing
need
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
participants
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
developing
demand for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This stimulating new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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