MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
investigates
subjects
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
developments in
distance learning have enabled
people
all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
elearning organizations
are having to struggle with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
improving so quickly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
UC Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
handle
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
available there is a
need
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
developing
desideratum for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational issues.
This interesting new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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