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 this cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
talks about
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
evolvements in
elearning have empowered
students
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education institutions
are having to deal with
more than ever because learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can teachers
ensure that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can organizations
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Burundi to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
widespread there is a
necessity
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
participants
want
to understand
these
exciting new open education
initiatives.
Instructors want
to gain an understanding of how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
developing
desideratum for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This amazing new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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