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 scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
analyzes
issues
related to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
Modern
gains in
e-learning are providing the means for
learners
all around the world
to take online classes.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
e-learning institutions
have to struggle with
today because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Equatorial Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
handle issues like
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
participants
need
to be more aware of
these
open educational
initiatives.
Instructors want
to better understand how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
growing
need for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational issues.
This intriguing new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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