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 fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
articulates
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
The latest
advances in
online education are empowering
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses online.
MOOCs are
ordinarily free
for students 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 lot of
issues that
online learning institutions
must deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can students
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle issues like
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
important new open education
initiatives.
Lecturers want
to know how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
information
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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