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.
Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
addresses
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
digital education technology have empowered
people
in nations all around the world
to take online classes.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These MOOC classes are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can teachers
ensure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can participants
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Canvas Network to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
manage issues like
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
ventures.
Universities want
to understand how
these massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
desideratum for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This definitive new book
also addresses the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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