MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
deals with
topics
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
changes in
blended learning technology have enabled
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in online courses.
Massive open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
today because online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can participants
be assured that
the quality of these
MOOC classes is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
available there is a
demand
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Researchers want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
expanding
desire for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This dramatic new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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