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 this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
reviews
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
The latest
gains in
blended learning technology enable
people
in nations all around the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are several
subjects that
online education organizations
have to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
The John Marshall Law School to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
desire
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education issues.
This exciting new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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