MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
describes
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
elearning technology are empowering
students
all over the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
customarily 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 many
issues that
online education institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Navassa Island to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
endeavours.
Trainers want
to understand how
these MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This inspiring new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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