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 edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
addresses
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
The latest
advances in
e-learning have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to take online classes.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are several
subjects that
elearning organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
get a handle on
poor
motivation and high
attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desire
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
need
to be more aware of
these
new open education
endeavours.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
desire for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This intriguing new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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