MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
gains in
digital education technology are providing the means for
people
all around the world
to participate in online classes.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a lot of
subjects that
blended learning institutions
are struggling with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can organizations
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
expanding
need for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This authoritative new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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