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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
reviews
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
gains in
online education technology have enabled
students
in nations all around the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a variety of
issues that
elearning institutions
are having to deal with
now that blended learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can participants
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Netherlands Antilles to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
get a handle on
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
participants
desire
to be more aware of
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
need for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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