MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
discusses
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
elearning are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
These MOOC classes are
almost always free
for students 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
subjects that
online education institutions
are having to struggle with
now that learning technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can we
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Netherlands Antilles to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
necessity
to grasp how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
participants
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
initiatives.
Educators want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To handle this
expanding
desire for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This intriguing new book
also deals with the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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