MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
explores
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advancements in
distance learning are enabling
learners
in all parts of the world
to take online classes.
These massive online courses are
typically free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
e-learning organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can students
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Queen Maud Land to conduct these MOOC courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
widespread there is a
developing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
these
exciting new open education
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Corporations want
to grasp how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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