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 appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
issues
related to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
developments in
learning technology are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online classes.
These massively open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
online education organizations
are having to deal with
today because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can students
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Poland to conduct these MOOC courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online learning becomes more
available there is a
necessity
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To respond to this
increasing
desire for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This dramatic new book
also articulates the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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