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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
reviews
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
developments in
electronic education technology are providing the means for
students
all over the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
usually 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.
There are a lot of
issues that
distance learning institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can institutions
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
French Polynesia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
handle problems like
low
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
available there is a
increasing
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
need for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This amazing new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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