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 educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
articulates
issues
relating to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Recent
evolvements in
elearning have provided the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to take part in online courses.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These online MOOCs are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online education institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
manage problems like
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
desideratum
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open educational
endeavours.
Instructors want
to know how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
need for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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