MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
studies
issues
regarding open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advancements in
distance learning technology enable
students
in all parts of the world
to take part in online courses.
MOOC classes are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are numerous
issues that
online education institutions
are having to consider
today because e-learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can we
make sure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can learners
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Eritrea to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desideratum
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Professors want
to gain an understanding of how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
In response to this
crescive
need for
knowledge
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This interesting new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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