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 the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
examines
issues
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
improvements in
blended learning are enabling
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online classes.
Massively open online courses are
commonly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can organizations
ensure that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Pennsylvania to conduct these MOOC classes?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
need
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better comprehend
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to perceive how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
In response to this
increasing
need for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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