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 this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
reviews
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
advances in
distance learning technology are making it possible for
people
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
learning technology institutions
are dealing with
now that elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can institutions
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Canvas Network to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
handle issues like
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desire
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to comprehend how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
desideratum for
information
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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