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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
addresses
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
gains in
digital education technology enable
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
usually free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to attend to
today because e-learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can we
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Saint Kitts and Nevis to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
get a handle on
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to perceive how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Everybody wants
to perceive how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
growing
demand for
data
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational issues.
This definitive new book
also deals with the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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