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 the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
reviews
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
gains in
online education technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to take classes online.
This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning.
Massive open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
blended learning institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because e-learning 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 teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Bolivia to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
exciting new open educational
undertakings.
Professors want
to know how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
increasing
desire for
details
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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