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 exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
online education technology enable
people
all over the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
mostly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
distance learning institutions
have to consider
now that learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can organizations
assure that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Zimbabwe to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
handle
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
available there is a
increasing
need
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
People want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
demand for
facts
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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