MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
explores
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
evolvements in
digital education technology have enabled
learners
all around the world
to participate in online classes.
These massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
elearning institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so fast.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can we
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can we
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Sri Lanka to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
handle
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
desire for
information
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This scholarly new book
also deals with the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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