MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
analyzes
issues
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
advances in
blended learning have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These MOOC classes are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so fast.
How can institutions
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can students
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Botswana to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
need
to perceive how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Instructors want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
desire for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational subjects.
This authoritative new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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