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 compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
reviews
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
changes in
e-learning technology make it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
These online MOOCs are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
are dealing with
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
certify that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can institutions
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Paraguay to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
handle
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
ventures.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Universities want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects.
This exciting new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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