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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
articulates
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
New
advances in
blended learning technology are empowering
humans
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
Massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a variety of
topics that
online education institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
handle issues like
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
demand
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
endeavours.
Academics want
to gain an understanding of how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
knowledge
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also researches the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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