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 this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
deals with
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
changes in
elearning are enabling
humans
in nations all aver the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
distance learning organizations
are having to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can organizations
certify that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
South Africa to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
handle
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
available there is a
demand
to perceive how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Students want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
growing
demand for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education issues.
This inspiring new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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