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.
Find out more about this fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
articulates
topics
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Recent
gains in
blended learning technology make it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online courses.
These online MOOCs are
ordinarily 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 quite a few
subjects that
elearning organizations
are having to struggle with
more than ever because elearning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the education provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desideratum
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to perceive how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
details
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education issues.
This new book
also explores the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources.
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