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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
reviews
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
distance learning are enabling
people
all over the world
to take classes online.
These massive open online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are many
subjects that
elearning technology organizations
have to deal with
now that elearning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
make sure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can learners
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Eliademy to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can educators
handle issues like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desire
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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