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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
elearning have made it possible for
humans
all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online education institutions
have to consider
more than ever because elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can we
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
need
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
new open educational
ventures.
Corporations want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
developing
desideratum for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational subjects.
This authoritative new book
also talks about the
major controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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