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 educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
explores
topics
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advances in
e-learning technology are empowering
humans
in all parts of the world
to participate in online courses.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
distance learning organizations
are having to deal with
now that elearning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can participants
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
manage
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
demand
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better comprehend
these
new open educational
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Teachers want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
developing
desire for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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