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 this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
discusses
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
New
changes in
blended learning are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in online classes.
These massive online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online education institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Utah Valley University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
would like
to better comprehend
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desire for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education subjects.
This inspiring new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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