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 this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
investigates
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
electronic education technology have empowered
learners
all around the world
to take online courses.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
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.
There are a lot of
subjects that
elearning organizations
have to deal with
now that elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can we
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can participants
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage issues like
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
participants
desire
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
important new open education
endeavours.
Teachers want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
growing
demand for
knowledge
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This stimulating new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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