MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
investigates
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
online learning technology are enabling
learners
all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
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 a variety of
issues that
blended learning institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can institutions
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can educators
get a handle on
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
need
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
participants
need
to better perceive
these
interesting new open education
ventures.
Instructors want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
desire for
facts
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education subjects.
This new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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