MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
deals with
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
changes in
elearning technology have provided the means for
students
all over the world
to participate in online classes.
These MOOC courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
today because learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can institutions
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
manage problems like
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
demand
to understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
significant new open educational
undertakings.
Corporations want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
desideratum for
data
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education topics.
This dramatic new book
also talks about the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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