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 the edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
studies
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
improvements in
online education technology have enabled
people
all over the world
to be participants in online courses.
These massive open courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
elearning technology institutions
are considering
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
make sure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can learners
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Israel to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
need
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
these
open education
undertakings.
Instructors want
to perceive how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education issues.
This gripping new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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