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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
articulates
subjects
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
New
advances in
distance learning technology enable
humans
all over the world
to be participants in online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are quite a few
issues that
distance learning organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can we
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Korea, South to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage problems like
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
would like
to understand
these
intriguing new open educational
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Scholars want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This interesting new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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