MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
developments in
online learning technology are enabling
humans
in every nation on earth
to take courses online.
MOOC courses are
typically free
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.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are quite a few
subjects that
elearning technology organizations
are struggling with
now that learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can institutions
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
One Month to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
handle
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
demand
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
desire
to understand
these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Everyone wants
to know how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
desire for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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