MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
reviews
issues
relating to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
New
advances in
online learning technology have enabled
learners
in nations all around the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily 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
issues that
blended learning organizations
are having to consider
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can institutions
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
necessity
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to grasp how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
information
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This book
also analyzes the
key controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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