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.
Find out more about this authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
addresses
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
advances in
online learning technology have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
mostly free
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
issues that
elearning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can students
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desire
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
desideratum for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This authoritative new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
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