MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
explores
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
evolvements in
e-learning enable
learners
all over the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
commonly free
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 a variety of
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
more than ever because online learning technology is
developing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the education provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can organizations
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
University of Kentucky to conduct these MOOCs?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desire
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
need for
knowledge
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This intriguing new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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