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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
changes in
electronic educational technology have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
MOOCs are
typically free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
elearning institutions
have to consider
more than ever because learning technology is
developing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Eliademy to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
handle problems like
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
want
to better understand
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
In response to this
growing
desideratum for
details
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational issues.
This new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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