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 the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
reviews
topics
regarding open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
The latest
advances in
distance learning technology are providing the means for
humans
all over the world
to take part in courses online.
These MOOCs are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are several
issues that
elearning technology institutions
have to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Russia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
widespread there is a
desideratum
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education topics.
This definitive new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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