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 the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
technology-enhanced learning are enabling
people
all around the world
to take online classes.
MOOCs are
almost always free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
more than ever because blended learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
make sure that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Ashmore and Cartier Islands to conduct these MOOC classes?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
attrition?
As elearning becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
demand
to comprehend how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Professors want
to perceive how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
facts
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This authoritative new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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