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 this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
gains in
blended learning have enabled
humans
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
MOOCs are
usually 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 quite a few
issues that
blended learning institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can teachers
make sure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can institutions
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Meetup to conduct these MOOC classes?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
manage issues like
low
motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Trainers want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
information
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 describes the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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