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 the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
evolvements in
online education technology have made it possible for
humans
all over the world
to take part in online courses.
These MOOCs are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
elearning institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can students
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desire
to be aware of how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
desire
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Everybody wants
to perceive how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
need for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues.
This amazing new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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