MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
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 Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
online education technology are making it possible for
humans
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
elearning technology organizations
are dealing with
today because blended learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can institutions
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
get a handle on
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
data
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education issues.
This authoritative new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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