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 this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
talks about
topics
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
gains in
online learning are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses online.
MOOCs are
free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a lot of
issues that
elearning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can institutions
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Peninsula College to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
handle
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
necessity
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
participants
desire
to be more aware of
these
new open education
initiatives.
Professors want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
need for
knowledge
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This intriguing new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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