MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
topics
regarding open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
online education make it possible for
learners
in all parts of the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
typically free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are quite a few
issues that
online education institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can participants
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Relay Graduate School of Education to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
manage
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
available there is a
increasing
demand
to be aware of how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
increasing
desideratum for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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