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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
talks about
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
improvements in
distance learning technology are providing the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
These online MOOC courses are
generally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can students
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Uruguay to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
need
to better perceive
these
open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
People want
to perceive how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
need for
details
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource issues.
This gripping new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
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