MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
addresses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Modern
changes in
online education have made it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes online.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences.
There are a lot of
subjects that
online education organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can we
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can learners
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Scientists
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
these
promising new open education
initiatives.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Everybody wants
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
demand for
details
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education topics.
This interesting new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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