MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
talks about
topics
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
evolvements in
elearning have provided the means for
learners
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online education institutions
are having to struggle with
now that elearning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
ensure that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Bolivia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
handle issues like
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
desideratum
to perceive how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
undertakings.
People want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
need for
knowledge
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource issues.
This definitive new book
also deals with the
key 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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