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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
talks about
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
evolvements in
elearning have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online courses.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These massively open online courses are
free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are several
topics that
distance learning organizations
are considering
now that online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can students
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Somalia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital educational technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
necessity
to perceive how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
these
open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
need for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational topics.
This interesting new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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