MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
deals with
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
evolvements in
electronic educational technology are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
These online MOOCs are
normally free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning institutions
have to struggle with
today because online education technology is
developing so fast.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Burkina Faso to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
need
to better understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
important new open educational
undertakings.
Educators want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
desideratum for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education issues.
This scholarly new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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