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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
addresses
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
changes in
electronic educational technology have provided the means for
learners
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
generally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are having to consider
more than ever because blended learning technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
certify that
the quality of these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can students
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
French Guiana to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects.
This scholarly new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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