MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
reviews
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
distance learning have empowered
people
in nations all aver the world
to take online courses.
These MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online education institutions
are struggling with
now that online learning technology is
developing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can students
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
manage
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
demand
to perceive how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Researchers want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To meet this
developing
demand for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational issues.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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