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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
addresses
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
gains in
e-learning are making it possible for
humans
in nations all aver the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online learning organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can educators
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can students
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
handle
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
these
promising new open education
ventures.
Professors want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
developing
need for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This dramatic new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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