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 the significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
describes
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
advances in
electronic education technology are empowering
people
all over the world
to take online classes.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massive open online courses are
generally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
blended learning organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so fast.
How can organizations
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can students
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses.
How can educators
handle issues like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
necessity
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
need
to better comprehend
these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to perceive how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desire for
information
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This new book
also discusses the
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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