MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
describes
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
gains in
elearning enable
people
all around the world
to take part in classes online.
Massive open online courses are
free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are quite a few
subjects that
learning technology organizations
must deal with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
ensure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
these
important new open education
endeavours.
Trainers want
to perceive how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
desire for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This interesting new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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