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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
gains in
digital education technology make it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are quite a few
subjects that
blended learning institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can educators
ensure that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can learners
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
iversity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
necessity
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
knowledge
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues.
This amazing new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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