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 is a
edited collection
which
researches
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
developments in
blended learning technology enable
students
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online education organizations
are having to consider
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can students
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
State University of New York to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
manage
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
need
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
need
to better perceive
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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