MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
talks about
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
digital education technology are enabling
people
in nations all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
usually free
for students 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 quite a few
subjects that
online education organizations
are struggling with
now that learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
make sure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Liberia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
handle issues like
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to perceive how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
need for
information
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This interesting new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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