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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
deals with
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
changes in
e-learning technology are empowering
students
in all parts of the world
to participate in online classes.
MOOC classes are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are many
topics that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can institutions
make sure that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can participants
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Abkhazia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
get a handle on
low
motivation and high
attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
available there is a
growing
necessity
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
participants
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To respond to this
increasing
need for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This gripping new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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