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 this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
describes
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
elearning make it possible for
people
all over the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are quite a few
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can students
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Martinique to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
demand
to better understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
endeavours.
Scholars want
to better understand how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
growing
desideratum for
details
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This definitive new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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