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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
describes
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
online education have enabled
learners
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online courses.
These MOOCs are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
online learning institutions
must deal with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
make sure that
the training provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can organizations
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
manage problems like
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
necessity
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
participants
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open education
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Professors want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
expanding
demand for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also addresses the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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