MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
deals with
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
e-learning technology are making it possible for
people
all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
MOOC classes are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can participants
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Rwaq to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desire
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
these
fascinating new open educational
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Public servants want
to better understand how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
information
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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