MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 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
book
that
discusses
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
e-learning are empowering
people
all over the world
to be participants in online courses.
These massive open courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
now that learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
ensure that
the education provided by these
MOOC classes is
passable?
How can institutions
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Miriada X to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
these
interesting new open education
ventures.
Educators want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To meet this
growing
desideratum for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This authoritative new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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