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 fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
investigates
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
New
advances in
online learning technology are empowering
students
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
MOOCs are
usually free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are numerous
issues that
blended learning institutions
are dealing with
today because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
certify that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can we
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desideratum
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
participants
need
to better understand
these
promising new open education
ventures.
Professors want
to better understand how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To handle this
developing
demand for
details
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This inspiring new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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