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 the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Modern
changes in
blended learning are providing the means for
people
all over the world
to take part in online courses.
MOOCs are
commonly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences.
There are numerous
subjects that
learning technology organizations
must deal with
today because elearning technology is
developing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can institutions
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Turks and Caicos Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
need
to comprehend how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
important new open education
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Everybody wants
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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