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 the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
topics
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
digital education technology are providing the means for
learners
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online classes.
These online MOOC courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
blended learning organizations
are dealing with
today because elearning technology is
advancing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can students
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
get a handle on
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
demand
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
initiatives.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Everybody wants
to grasp how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
demand for
details
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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