MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
studies
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
online education are empowering
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are quite a few
topics that
online education organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can teachers
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can institutions
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Portugal to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
handle
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As online education becomes more
procurable there is a
demand
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better grasp
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to better understand how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
demand for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This inspiring new book
also addresses the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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