MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
talks about
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
gains in
e-learning technology have made it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to take part in classes online.
These online MOOCs are
normally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a lot of
topics that
online learning organizations
are having to struggle with
more than ever because elearning technology is
developing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can institutions
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Pitcairn Islands to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
handle issues like
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As online learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
demand
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to know how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues.
This book
also studies the
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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