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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
reviews
topics
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
changes in
online learning have provided the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
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.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are several
subjects that
distance learning organizations
are having to deal with
now that online education technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can we
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
People want
to perceive how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To handle this
developing
need for
facts
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This intriguing new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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