MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
improvements in
learning technology are making it possible for
learners
all over the world
to be participants in online classes.
These MOOCs are
generally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can students
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Brunei to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
manage
poor
student motivation and high
attrition?
As digital educational technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
these
exciting new open education
endeavours.
Everybody wants
to know how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
developing
desire for
information
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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