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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
e-learning technology are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are considering
today because online education 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
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As electronic education technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
growing
desire for
information
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This authoritative new book
also researches the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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