MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
researches
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advancements in
distance learning technology are making it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes online.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online education institutions
are having to deal with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
assure that
the education provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can we
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Colombia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
desire
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Educators want
to perceive how
these massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
expanding
desideratum for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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