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
edited collection
that
deals with
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
changes in
distance learning technology are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in classes online.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can participants
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
manage problems like
poor
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
need
to better understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
participants
need
to understand
these
interesting new open educational
endeavours.
Everyone wants
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
need for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects.
This gripping new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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