MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
advancements in
electronic educational technology are making it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
elearning technology organizations
have to consider
today because learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
France to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
demand
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
open educational
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Scholars want
to grasp how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This interesting new book
also investigates the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
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