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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
examines
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
changes in
blended learning have enabled
people
in nations all aver the world
to participate in courses online.
This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education.
Massively open online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
are dealing with
today because learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can participants
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Hong Kong to conduct these MOOCs?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to comprehend how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To respond to this
expanding
demand for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This interesting new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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