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 authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
deals with
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
blended learning have provided the means for
students
in all parts of the world
to take online classes.
Massively open online courses are
free
but do not
always
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 many
subjects that
e-learning technology institutions
are considering
now that blended learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage issues like
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
demand
to perceive how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
People want
to know how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational subjects.
This amazing new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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