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 this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
explores
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
changes in
online learning have provided the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
distance learning institutions
have to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can students
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Barbados to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
handle issues like
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
demand
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
initiatives.
Educators want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
desideratum for
facts
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This new book
also deals with the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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