MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
subjects
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
e-learning have provided the means for
people
all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
MOOCs are
commonly free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online education organizations
are having to deal with
today because e-learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Aland to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
handle
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desideratum
to understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
exciting new open education
ventures.
Corporations want
to comprehend how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education subjects.
This intriguing new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
|