MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
examines
subjects
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
gains in
electronic education technology have enabled
students
all around the world
to take online courses.
These massive open online courses are
generally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
learning technology organizations
are dealing with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can students
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Central African Republic to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
In response to this
increasing
desire for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This amazing new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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