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 the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
researches
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
blended learning technology have enabled
humans
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
ordinarily 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 several
topics that
elearning technology organizations
must deal with
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
handle
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
prolific there is a
desire
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to know how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
desideratum for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This authoritative new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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