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 fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
describes
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
developments in
online education have enabled
humans
in nations all aver the world
to be participants in courses online.
This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education.
These MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
e-learning organizations
are having to deal with
now that online education technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can organizations
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Equatorial Guinea to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Universities want
to know how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To respond to this
desideratum for
facts
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also articulates the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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