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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
talks about
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
e-learning have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online classes.
These MOOC classes are
generally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a variety of
topics that
online learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
now that online education technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can institutions
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Portugal to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
desideratum
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
growing
need for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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