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 this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
examines
issues
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
advances in
e-learning are enabling
learners
in all parts of the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
mostly 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 a lot of
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
are considering
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
ensure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
UWashingtonX to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can organizations
manage
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to perceive how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
MOOC classes and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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