MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
gains in
digital education technology are making it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
typically free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
elearning institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving 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 schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
manage issues like
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
procurable there is a
demand
to understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to better understand how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
desire for
details
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This intriguing new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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