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 the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
discusses
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
changes in
learning technology have provided the means for
learners
in every nation on earth
to participate in online classes.
Massive open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
elearning technology organizations
are considering
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of training provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Barbados to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better comprehend
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Lecturers want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To handle this
need for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This interesting new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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