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 the fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
gains in
online learning are providing the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
online education organizations
are dealing with
today because distance learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can we
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Jersey to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
initiatives.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Academics want
to understand how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This intriguing new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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