MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
deals with
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
distance learning technology have enabled
people
all over the world
to take part in courses online.
These online MOOCs are
usually free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are quite a few
subjects that
online learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so quickly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Israel to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
necessity
to understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
participants
desire
to better perceive
these
important new open education
initiatives.
Corporations want
to grasp how
these massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
desideratum for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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