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.
Find out more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
developments in
digital education technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to take part in online courses.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online 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
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
manage
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
these
open educational
ventures.
Scholars want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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