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 interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
deals with
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
online learning technology are empowering
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in classes online.
These massively open online courses are
typically free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a lot of
subjects that
distance learning institutions
must deal with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so rapidly.
How can institutions
make sure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can participants
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Zambia to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
available there is a
developing
demand
to grasp how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
desire
to better perceive
these
compelling new open education
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Researchers want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
developing
desideratum for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This thrilling new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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