MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
articulates
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advancements in
online learning have enabled
humans
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses online.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
elearning technology organizations
must deal with
now that online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can we
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
necessity
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Everybody wants
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
desire for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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