MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
issues
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
changes in
e-learning enable
people
in nations all aver the world
to participate in online courses.
MOOCs are
usually free
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 many
issues that
blended learning organizations
are having to attend to
now that online education technology is
developing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can institutions
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
demand
to better understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
these
new open education
ventures.
Professors want
to grasp how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
demand for
knowledge
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This interesting new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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