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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
studies
issues
related to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
electronic educational technology have enabled
students
all over the world
to participate in online courses.
These massive online courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
blended learning institutions
are having to deal with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the training provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can students
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Costa Rica to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Students want
to know how
these massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
desideratum for
facts
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This intriguing new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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