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 this enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
discusses
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
advances in
e-learning technology are empowering
people
all over the world
to take classes online.
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.
Massive open online courses are
typically free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences.
There are many
topics that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
now that elearning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can students
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
ventures.
Researchers want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
details
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This sensational new book
also investigates the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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