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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
analyzes
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
learning technology have provided the means for
people
in nations all aver the world
to take classes online.
MOOCs are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to attend to
now that online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses.
How can participants
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
necessity
to grasp how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
ventures.
Educators want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To meet this
increasing
need for
knowledge
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education subjects.
This gripping new book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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