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.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
distance learning technology are making it possible for
people
all over the world
to take online courses.
MOOCs are
typically free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
elearning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so swiftly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can organizations
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
get a handle on
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
need
to better understand
these
intriguing new open educational
undertakings.
Teachers want
to know how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
increasing
need for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This intriguing new book
also addresses the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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