MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
advances in
online learning are making it possible for
people
all around the world
to take classes online.
These MOOC courses are
almost always free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education.
How can participants
guarantee that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
handle problems like
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
procurable there is a
need
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
participants
want
to better comprehend
these
interesting new open education
undertakings.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Lecturers want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
growing
need for
details
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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