MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
investigates
issues
regarding open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
electronic educational technology are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
blended learning organizations
are dealing with
more than ever because learning technology is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Curtis Institute of Music to conduct these MOOC classes?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to perceive how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
desire
to better perceive
these
new open education
initiatives.
Researchers want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
expanding
desire for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This inspiring new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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