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 this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
articulates
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
elearning technology have empowered
humans
all over the world
to take part in courses online.
These MOOCs are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
elearning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because blended learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can we
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Germany to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desideratum
to be aware of how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Students
and many other
participants
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
endeavours.
People want
to better understand how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
desire for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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