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.
Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
e-learning have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to take part in classes online.
Massive open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning institutions
are struggling with
more than ever because distance learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can teachers
assure that
the schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can participants
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can educators
handle
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As elearning becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
need
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
participants
need
to understand
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects.
This definitive new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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