MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
addresses
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
improvements in
digital education technology are empowering
learners
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are many
topics that
blended learning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can organizations
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Wake Island to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
demand
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
open education
experiments.
Everyone wants
to understand how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
demand for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education topics.
This stimulating new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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