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.
Learn more about this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
articulates
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
evolvements in
online education are providing the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive online courses are
mostly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
e-learning organizations
are dealing with
now that online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can we
assure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can organizations
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Germany to conduct these massive open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
get a handle on
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
necessity
to understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
desire
to better perceive
these
new open education
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Instructors want
to grasp how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To meet this
increasing
desire for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This book
also talks about the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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