MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
addresses
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
elearning have provided the means for
humans
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
These massive open courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
e-learning organizations
are having to struggle with
more than ever because elearning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can we
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coral Sea Islands to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
handle
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
desideratum
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open educational
initiatives.
Lecturers want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
desideratum for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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