MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
deals with
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
changes in
online education technology have enabled
humans
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
MOOCs are
commonly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning organizations
are considering
today because e-learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can institutions
certify that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can we
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Dominican Republic to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
handle issues like
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
demand
to be aware of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Scientists want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This definitive new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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