MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
articulates
issues
related to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
distance learning technology are empowering
learners
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes online.
This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education.
These online MOOC courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a variety of
subjects that
blended learning institutions
are having to deal with
now that blended learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can participants
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Fiji to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desire
to understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
People want
to gain an understanding of how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
growing
need for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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