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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
articulates
subjects
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
online education technology are empowering
people
in all parts of the world
to take online classes.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
elearning institutions
have to consider
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
make sure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can we
handle problems like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
need
to understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
promising new open educational
endeavours.
Trainers want
to know how
these massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
expanding
need for
information
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This gripping new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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