MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
researches
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
online learning technology enable
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in online classes.
MOOC courses are
generally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
distance learning organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can educators
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
demand
to perceive how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
want
to understand
these
open education
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
need for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education subjects.
This book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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