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 fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
topics
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
gains in
e-learning have empowered
humans
all over the world
to take online courses.
These massive open online courses are
generally free
for learners 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 a lot of
subjects that
online learning technology organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can educators
make sure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can participants
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Brunei to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
handle issues like
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desideratum
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
need for
details
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This interesting new book
also addresses the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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