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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
studies
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
improvements in
digital education technology enable
learners
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
These online MOOCs are
almost always free
but do not
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
distance learning institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can participants
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can educators
handle issues like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desideratum
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
new open education
endeavours.
Scholars want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
desideratum for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education subjects.
This interesting new book
also investigates the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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