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 this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
changes in
online learning technology enable
people
all around the world
to take part in classes online.
These massive open online courses are
almost always free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
learning technology institutions
have to consider
more than ever because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can participants
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, San Diego to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to grasp how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
participants
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
endeavours.
Everybody wants
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
growing
desideratum for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics.
This interesting new book
also examines the
key 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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