MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
investigates
topics
related to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
advancements in
online education have empowered
humans
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes online.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
online learning technology organizations
must deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can institutions
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
handle problems like
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desideratum
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Instructors want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
demand for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This definitive new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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