MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
examines
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
changes in
online education technology have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes online.
These massive online courses are
generally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online education organizations
have to struggle with
today because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can learners
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
need
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
these
significant new open educational
ventures.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
People want
to perceive how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
desideratum for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also explores the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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