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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
articulates
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
electronic educational technology are empowering
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
elearning organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
manage
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
widespread there is a
need
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Everyone wants
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
demand for
facts
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational issues.
This definitive new book
also addresses the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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