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 this fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
improvements in
electronic educational technology have provided the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses online.
MOOCs are
generally free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
blended learning institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so fast.
How can organizations
certify that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Guam to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
handle problems like
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
demand
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
participants
would like
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education topics.
This stimulating new book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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