MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
online education technology have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are several
subjects that
online learning organizations
are dealing with
more than ever because distance learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can we
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Georgetown University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
handle
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
desire
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to understand how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
demand for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This amazing new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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