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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
articulates
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
improvements in
online education are enabling
humans
all around the world
to participate in courses online.
MOOC classes are
typically free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
blended learning institutions
are having to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can we
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
widespread there is a
developing
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to know how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
need for
information
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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