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 this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
considers
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
advances in
e-learning technology are empowering
students
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes via the Internet.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
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 education organizations
are having to struggle with
more than ever because online learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
make sure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOCs is
all right?
How can learners
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Japan to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
manage issues like
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
procurable there is a
desideratum
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
undertakings.
Public servants want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
desire for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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