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 Around the World is a
book
which
investigates
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
improvements in
distance learning technology are enabling
people
all around the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These online MOOCs are
normally free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
elearning institutions
have to struggle with
today because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can teachers
assure that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Djibouti to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
manage issues like
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
necessity
to grasp how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
need for
knowledge
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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