MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
describes
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
e-learning have enabled
humans
all over the world
to participate in classes online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
MOOC courses are
usually free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online education organizations
are having to deal with
now that elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
MOOEC to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
handle issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desideratum
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Everybody wants
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also addresses the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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