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 the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
analyzes
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
gains in
blended learning technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
commonly free
but do not
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 many
topics that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
today because elearning technology is
developing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can organizations
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Sweden to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
available there is a
necessity
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
exciting new open educational
ventures.
Professors want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
growing
desideratum for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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