MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
researches
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
The latest
gains in
e-learning have empowered
learners
all over the world
to take courses online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These massive online courses are
typically free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
distance learning organizations
have to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can participants
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can institutions
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
UWashingtonX to conduct these MOOC courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
manage
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
desideratum
to grasp how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also investigates the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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