MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
explores
topics
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
distance learning have provided the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can participants
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Rochester to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to be aware of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
initiatives.
Everybody wants
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This thrilling new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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