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 this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
studies
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
developments in
distance learning are enabling
people
all around the world
to be participants in classes online.
Massively open online courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are numerous
issues that
e-learning organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
handle problems like
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
want
to better comprehend
these
open education
ventures.
Corporations want
to better understand how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
demand for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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