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 this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
reviews
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
improvements in
distance learning technology have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
usually free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
online education institutions
have to consider
more than ever because online education technology is
developing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
make sure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can organizations
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to perceive how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
ventures.
Scholars want
to know how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
demand for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education subjects.
This book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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