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 the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
describes
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
distance learning technology are providing the means for
students
all over the world
to participate in online courses.
Massive open online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
consistently
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
topics that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
more than ever because e-learning technology is
advancing so fast.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can institutions
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Albania to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
manage problems like
poor
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
these
interesting new open education
endeavours.
Teachers want
to better understand how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
In response to this
desire for
details
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This sensational new book
also explores the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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