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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
elearning enable
humans
all over the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
normally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are quite a few
subjects that
e-learning institutions
are having to consider
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can we
make sure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can participants
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Michigan to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
manage
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
promising new open educational
ventures.
Teachers want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
desideratum for
knowledge
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational topics.
This definitive new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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