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.
Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advances in
blended learning technology have empowered
humans
in nations all around the world
to take classes online.
Massive open online courses are
free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
elearning technology organizations
have to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Congo, (Congo  – Kinshasa) to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
new open education
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Corporations want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
In response to this
developing
desideratum for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education issues.
This stimulating new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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