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.
Find out more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
articulates
topics
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
online education are empowering
humans
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
commonly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
online education organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can institutions
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
handle problems like
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
endeavours.
Students want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
In response to this
expanding
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education topics.
This thrilling new book
also considers 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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