MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
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
edited collection
that
talks about
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
The latest
changes in
online education technology are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily 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 several
topics that
online learning organizations
are struggling with
more than ever because e-learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can organizations
certify that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can students
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
manage
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
demand
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to better understand how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
demand for
information
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education subjects.
This amazing new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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