MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
examines
issues
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
changes in
elearning have provided the means for
learners
in all parts of the world
to take part in classes online.
These MOOC classes 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 many
topics that
learning technology institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can students
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Belize to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
demand
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
desideratum for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This stimulating new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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