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 the appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
evolvements in
electronic educational technology are making it possible for
people
in nations all aver the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These massively open online 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 a variety of
topics that
online learning technology organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Morocco to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online education becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This book
also deals with the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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