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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
describes
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
These online MOOCs are
customarily 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 a lot of
subjects that
distance learning organizations
are having to deal with
today because blended learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
ensure that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
desire for
information
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This interesting new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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