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.
Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
examines
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
improvements in
digital education technology are enabling
students
all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
These online MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
e-learning institutions
are having to attend to
today because e-learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can teachers
make sure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Guernsey to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
handle
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
endeavours.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
desire for
facts
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This interesting new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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