MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
reviews
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
online learning have enabled
people
all over the world
to take courses online.
These massive open online courses are
free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a lot of
issues that
online education institutions
are struggling with
today because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can learners
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
demand
to be aware of how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Academics
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
important new open education
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Everybody wants
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
details
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This gripping new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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