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 this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
talks about
issues
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
evolvements in
digital education technology have provided the means for
learners
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
mostly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the education provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Reddit to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Academics want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics.
This definitive new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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