MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
deals with
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
online learning have enabled
students
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a lot of
topics that
distance learning institutions
are struggling with
now that online education technology is
improving so fast.
How can organizations
ensure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can participants
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
need
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
desire for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This dramatic new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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