MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
explores
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
evolvements in
blended learning technology have provided the means for
learners
in nations all aver the world
to participate in online courses.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These massive online courses are
customarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
elearning technology organizations
have to consider
today because online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can learners
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
necessity
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
need
to better perceive
these
open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects.
This stimulating new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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