MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
examines
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
developments in
electronic educational technology are providing the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in online classes.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive open online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online education institutions
are having to deal with
now that elearning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can educators
guarantee that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can participants
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Haiti to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
desire
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better understand
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To handle this
desideratum for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education topics.
This definitive new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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