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 this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
reviews
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
e-learning have made it possible for
students
in nations all around the world
to take courses online.
MOOC classes are
generally free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
more than ever because learning technology is
improving so fast.
This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can students
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
necessity
to grasp how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
important new open education
undertakings.
Corporations want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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