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 fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
changes in
e-learning technology are enabling
humans
all around the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
generally 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.
There are a lot of
subjects that
e-learning institutions
are dealing with
today because learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these MOOCs?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
undertakings.
Lecturers want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This inspiring new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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