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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
investigates
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
online learning make it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences.
There are several
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are having to attend to
now that e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
manage issues like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to grasp how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
In response to this
increasing
desideratum for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This definitive new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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