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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
gains in
online learning have enabled
people
all over the world
to be participants in classes online.
These MOOCs are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are a lot of
topics that
blended learning organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can educators
ensure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can we
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Latvia to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
handle
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to grasp how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Academics want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
need for
details
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also articulates the
key controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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