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 the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
talks about
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
developments in
blended learning technology are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses online.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
These massive open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
have to deal with
more than ever because blended learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can educators
ensure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can we
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
manage issues like
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to understand how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
demand for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This intriguing new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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