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 Around the World is a
book
that
explores
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
e-learning technology are making it possible for
students
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
blended learning organizations
are having to consider
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
developing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can institutions
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Iraq to conduct these massive open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
manage
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As electronic education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
demand
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
need for
facts
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This scholarly new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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