MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
learning technology are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take classes via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a lot of
subjects that
distance learning institutions
are having to struggle with
more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so fast.
How can organizations
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can institutions
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open education
initiatives.
Lecturers want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
need for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This interesting new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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