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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
addresses
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
distance learning technology enable
people
in nations all aver the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a variety of
subjects that
distance learning organizations
are having to attend to
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality control for these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can organizations
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
need
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
expanding
desideratum for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education issues.
This amazing new book
also explores the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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