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 this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
analyzes
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
online education technology are empowering
students
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
MOOC courses are
commonly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a lot of
issues that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
more than ever because blended learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can we
certify that
the quality of these
MOOC classes is
acceptable?
How can participants
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Ireland to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
available there is a
growing
desideratum
to comprehend how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
want
to better comprehend
these
important new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Everybody wants
to perceive how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This dramatic new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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