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.
Learn more about this interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
elearning technology make it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in classes online.
These massively open online courses are
typically free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are several
topics that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can participants
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
desideratum
to perceive how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
these
exciting new open educational
undertakings.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Scientists want
to know how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational topics.
This intriguing new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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