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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
deals with
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
online education are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
commonly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
blended learning institutions
are having to deal with
today because online learning technology is
developing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Senegal to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
necessity
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
participants
need
to be more aware of
these
open education
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
In response to this
growing
need for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This inspiring new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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