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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
articulates
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
blended learning technology are providing the means for
students
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
generally free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a variety of
topics that
blended learning organizations
must deal with
now that online education technology is
developing so fast.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can organizations
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to comprehend how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
desire for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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