MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
discusses
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
online education technology are empowering
people
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive open online courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
online education institutions
have to deal with
today because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can we
assure that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
handle issues like
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
endeavours.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Academics want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
growing
demand for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education subjects.
This scholarly new book
also deals with the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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