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 the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
studies
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
e-learning technology are providing the means for
learners
in nations all aver the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are
typically free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are quite a few
topics that
elearning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can organizations
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desideratum
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
participants
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
expanding
need for
knowledge
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational issues.
This book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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