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 dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
online learning technology have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to take part in online courses.
These MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
e-learning organizations
have to consider
today because online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can participants
certify that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle problems like
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
demand
to grasp how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to understand how
these MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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