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
investigates
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
elearning technology have enabled
people
in nations all aver the world
to take courses online.
These massive open courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online education institutions
are struggling with
now that elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can learners
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
get a handle on
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
demand for
data
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education issues.
This book
also examines the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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