MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
researches
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
gains in
learning technology have enabled
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
MOOC classes are
normally free
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 a variety of
subjects that
learning technology organizations
are dealing with
now that online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can students
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
demand
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
developing
desire for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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