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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
investigates
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
elearning technology are enabling
humans
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can teachers
assure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can participants
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Netherlands to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desire
to comprehend how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Professors want
to better understand how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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