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.
Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
describes
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
online education have enabled
humans
in nations all aver the world
to take online classes.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are a lot of
issues that
online education organizations
are dealing with
today because learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the training provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can students
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
McHenry County College to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desire
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better comprehend
these
new open educational
undertakings.
Educators want
to gain an understanding of how
these massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
developing
need for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational topics.
This interesting new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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