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 fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
changes in
online learning have provided the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses online.
These MOOC classes are
usually 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 variety of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are having to deal with
today because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can institutions
assure that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
all right?
How can we
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Brown University to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to understand
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Scholars want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics.
This intriguing new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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