MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
addresses
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
distance learning technology are making it possible for
humans
all around the world
to take online classes.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a variety of
issues that
blended learning institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
manage issues like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desire
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
open educational
initiatives.
Public servants want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
demand for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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