MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
analyzes
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
distance learning technology are providing the means for
people
in nations all aver the world
to take part in online courses.
MOOC courses are
free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
elearning technology organizations
have to struggle with
now that online education technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
make sure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
manage problems like
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
promising new open education
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Scholars want
to know how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
In response to this
crescive
demand for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This definitive new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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