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 the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
reviews
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
New
advances in
e-learning are enabling
people
in nations all aver the world
to take part in online classes.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are several
issues that
blended learning organizations
have to consider
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can organizations
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Abkhazia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
need
to perceive how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
want
to better understand
these
important new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to gain an understanding of how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
need for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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