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 this authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
talks about
issues
related to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
developments in
online education technology make it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
These MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality control for these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
get a handle on
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
desideratum
to understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better perceive
these
fascinating new open education
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Universities want
to perceive how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
developing
desideratum for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This scholarly new book
also deals with the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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