MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
studies
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
The latest
changes in
online education technology are empowering
learners
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses online.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
blended learning institutions
have to struggle with
more than ever because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can teachers
make sure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can students
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
handle problems like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital educational technology becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
necessity
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
participants
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Lecturers want
to gain an understanding of how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
growing
need for
facts
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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