MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
talks about
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
electronic educational technology have empowered
learners
in nations all aver the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These MOOCs are
generally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are several
issues that
online learning organizations
are dealing with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can organizations
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desideratum
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to understand how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
In response to this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also researches the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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