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 definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
talks about
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
developments in
online education make it possible for
students
all over the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
typically free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
distance learning organizations
are struggling with
today because online education technology is
advancing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Israel to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
necessity
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better grasp
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Students want
to know how
these massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
In response to this
developing
desire for
knowledge
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This gripping new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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