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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
discusses
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
evolvements in
technology-enhanced learning have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to take classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
online education institutions
are having to consider
today because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can educators
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can learners
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desideratum
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
participants
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Lecturers want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
desire for
details
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This definitive new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources.
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