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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
addresses
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
distance learning have enabled
students
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
MOOC classes are
commonly free
for learners 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 quite a few
topics that
learning technology organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
assure that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
desire
to perceive how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
interesting new open education
undertakings.
People want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
expanding
demand for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This interesting new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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