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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
analyzes
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
gains in
online learning technology have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to take courses online.
These massively open online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
today because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Angola to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
handle issues like
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
necessity
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Intellectuals want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To handle this
need for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This interesting new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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