MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
examines
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
changes in
online learning make it possible for
learners
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
typically free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a variety of
topics that
online education institutions
are having to consider
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can learners
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Botswana to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desideratum
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
undertakings.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Instructors want
to better understand how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This definitive new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
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