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.
Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
articulates
issues
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
elearning technology have enabled
people
all over the world
to participate in courses online.
These online MOOCs are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can participants
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Djibouti to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
handle
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
demand
to comprehend how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Universities want
to understand how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To satisfy this
demand for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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