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 the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
studies
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
gains in
online learning are making it possible for
students
in nations all aver the world
to take classes via the Internet.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
MOOC courses are
normally 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 numerous
issues that
distance learning institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can institutions
assure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Chile to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
handle issues like
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
demand for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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