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 fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
improvements in
online education make it possible for
people
all over the world
to be participants in online classes.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences.
There are many
issues that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
ensure that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can students
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
need
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
developing
desideratum for
information
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This thrilling new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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