MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
addresses
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
e-learning have empowered
students
in every nation on earth
to take courses online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massive open online courses are
free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a lot of
subjects that
e-learning institutions
are having to deal with
more than ever because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can we
assure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
all right?
How can institutions
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Iran to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desideratum
to be aware of how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Scientists want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
In response to this
increasing
demand for
knowledge
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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