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 this edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
addresses
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
developments in
blended learning are providing the means for
humans
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education.
These massive open online courses are
usually free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a lot of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to consider
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can we
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Germany to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
necessity
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to understand how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
desire for
information
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics.
This authoritative new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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