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 this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advances in
distance learning technology have enabled
humans
all over the world
to take online courses.
These MOOC classes are
commonly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
distance learning institutions
must deal with
today because distance learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can institutions
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
endeavours.
Trainers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
desire for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This new book
also articulates the
key controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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