MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
considers
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
gains in
e-learning have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in online classes.
MOOC courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
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
topics that
e-learning institutions
are having to consider
now that elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can we
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can students
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Kentucky to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Scientists want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
expanding
demand for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This authoritative new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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