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 exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
talks about
issues
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Recent
evolvements in
blended learning technology have empowered
learners
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses online.
These online MOOCs are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online education organizations
are having to attend to
today because elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can participants
assure that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can students
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
manage problems like
poor
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desideratum
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
desire for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource issues.
This interesting new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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