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 the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
researches
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
online learning have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These massively open online courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning organizations
have to consider
now that elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can we
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can institutions
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Miriada X to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desire
to grasp how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
desideratum for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education issues.
This amazing new book
also researches the
major controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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