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 is a
book
which
examines
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
electronic education technology are providing the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses online.
These massive open courses are
typically free
but do not
always
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 variety of
subjects that
distance learning organizations
have to struggle with
now that elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can institutions
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
American Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
undertakings.
Everybody wants
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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