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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
addresses
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advancements in
e-learning are providing the means for
students
in nations all around the world
to take classes online.
These massive online courses are
commonly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online education institutions
have to struggle with
today because learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
University of California, San Diego to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
handle
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desire
to perceive how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Everybody wants
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
In response to this
developing
demand for
knowledge
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education subjects.
This scholarly new book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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