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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
addresses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
digital education technology have empowered
humans
all over the world
to take online courses.
These online MOOCs are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
blended learning institutions
must deal with
today because learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can institutions
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Macedonia to conduct these MOOC courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and numerous other
participants
want
to understand
these
new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to perceive how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
crescive
demand for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This intriguing new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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