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.
Learn more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
online education are providing the means for
learners
all over the world
to take part in online classes.
These MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
consistently
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 several
issues that
elearning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Spain to conduct these MOOCs?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
handle
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
available there is a
growing
desideratum
to understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
significant new open education
ventures.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
crescive
demand for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This interesting new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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