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 this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
explores
subjects
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
improvements in
elearning technology have enabled
people
all around the world
to take online classes.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are several
subjects that
elearning technology organizations
have to consider
today because e-learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can we
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As online education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desire
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to perceive how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
information
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics.
This dramatic new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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