MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
studies
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
elearning technology make it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online classes.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massively open online courses are
generally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Stanford Online to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
handle problems like
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
desire
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Intellectuals want
to better understand how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
In response to this
developing
desideratum for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This exciting new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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