MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
articulates
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
online learning are making it possible for
students
in nations all aver the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
These massively open online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are many
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can students
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Kuwait to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
handle
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and lots of other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
initiatives.
Professors want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
crescive
demand for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
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