MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
investigates
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
e-learning technology are empowering
students
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes online.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
be assured that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Bolivia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
handle
poor
motivation and high
attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
demand
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Students want
to better understand how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
growing
desire for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This inspiring new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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