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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
researches
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
developments in
e-learning are making it possible for
people
all over the world
to be participants in online classes.
These massive open online courses are
free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are quite a few
topics that
online education organizations
are dealing with
more than ever because e-learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Kuwait to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
get a handle on
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
these
important new open education
ventures.
Students want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
knowledge
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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