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.
Learn more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
evolvements in
distance learning have provided the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are many
topics that
online education organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so fast.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Angola to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
demand
to grasp how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
need
to better grasp
these
important new open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to grasp how
these MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
details
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This amazing new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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