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 this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
analyzes
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
changes in
distance learning technology have enabled
people
all around the world
to take part in courses online.
These MOOC courses are
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 several
subjects that
blended learning institutions
have to struggle with
more than ever because online learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can learners
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to understand
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This authoritative new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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