MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
improvements in
online education enable
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massive open online courses are
commonly free
for learners 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 several
subjects that
distance learning institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can students
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
MenaVersity to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
need
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
ventures.
Academics want
to understand how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
demand for
details
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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