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 appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
examines
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
New
developments in
electronic educational technology have empowered
students
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning organizations
are considering
today because online education technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
certify that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can institutions
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
desideratum
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
participants
want
to better comprehend
these
fascinating new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to grasp how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
growing
need for
information
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This authoritative new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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