MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
addresses
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
changes in
digital education technology are empowering
students
in every nation on earth
to take classes online.
These online MOOCs are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are several
issues that
online education institutions
must deal with
today because online education technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can participants
make sure that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can participants
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Syria to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
handle problems like
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desire
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
participants
need
to better perceive
these
new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
demand for
knowledge
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This interesting new book
also studies the
major 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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