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.
Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
reviews
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advancements in
distance learning are empowering
learners
in nations all aver the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These MOOCs are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are having to attend to
today because learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC classes is
all right?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desideratum
to perceive how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
endeavours.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
information
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This sensational new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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