MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advances in
online learning technology are providing the means for
people
all over the world
to take part in courses online.
These massive online courses are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences.
There are many
topics that
learning technology organizations
are struggling with
more than ever because online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can participants
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Tokelau to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
necessity
to understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
want
to be more aware of
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education topics.
This gripping new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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