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 this informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
addresses
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
online education technology are enabling
learners
all over the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
typically free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online learning organizations
are struggling with
today because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
ensure that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can students
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
United States to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
participants
would like
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to perceive how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
need for
knowledge
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This thrilling new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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