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 this cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
blended learning technology have enabled
humans
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can learners
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Broward College to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
need
to gain a better understanding of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
need
to better comprehend
these
interesting new open educational
undertakings.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
desire for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects.
This intriguing new book
also explores the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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