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 this enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advancements in
electronic educational technology are empowering
humans
all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
These massive open courses are
usually free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
elearning organizations
are having to consider
more than ever because learning technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can learners
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
necessity
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
participants
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
undertakings.
Trainers want
to know how
these MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To meet this
developing
desideratum for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This authoritative new book
also investigates the
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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