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 the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
advancements in
online education technology are making it possible for
people
all around the world
to be participants in classes online.
Massively open online courses are
usually free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are a lot of
subjects that
e-learning organizations
are struggling with
today because blended learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can participants
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
manage
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
these
open education
experiments.
Trainers want
to perceive how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
desideratum for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This interesting new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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