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 fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
researches
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
developments in
blended learning technology have empowered
learners
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
These massively open online courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a lot of
topics that
elearning institutions
are having to struggle with
today because learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can we
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Harvard University to conduct these MOOCs?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
need
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
important new open education
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Everybody wants
to understand how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
developing
desire for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This thrilling new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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