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 this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
examines
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Modern
changes in
distance learning technology have empowered
learners
all over the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are considering
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can teachers
ensure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
all right?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
McHenry County College to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
get a handle on
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Researchers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To respond to this
expanding
desire for
details
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This definitive new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
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