MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
examines
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advancements in
online education technology have provided the means for
learners
all around the world
to participate in courses online.
MOOCs are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can we
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can students
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Scholars want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education subjects.
This book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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