MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
studies
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
developments in
elearning technology are enabling
humans
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
These massive open courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
blended learning institutions
are having to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Concordia University Wisconsin to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
available there is a
increasing
necessity
to better understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To respond to this
increasing
need for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This dramatic new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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