MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
developments in
blended learning have enabled
students
all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
commonly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are dealing with
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can learners
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Eliademy to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
get a handle on
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
demand
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to understand
these
promising new open education
endeavours.
Trainers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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