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.
Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
studies
topics
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
developments in
distance learning technology are enabling
people
in nations all aver the world
to be participants in online courses.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These massive online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are several
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
France to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle issues like
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
available there is a
growing
demand
to comprehend how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This amazing new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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