MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
researches
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advances in
e-learning are making it possible for
humans
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
elearning institutions
are having to attend to
now that blended learning technology is
improving so fast.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can participants
certify that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Cocos (Keeling) Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
desideratum
to better understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
initiatives.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Public servants want
to better understand how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
In response to this
developing
desire for
information
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education issues.
This book
also addresses the
major controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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