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 fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
deals with
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advancements in
distance learning technology have provided the means for
students
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
MOOCs are
commonly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
are struggling with
now that online learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can students
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Ecotech Institute to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
participants
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
desire for
knowledge
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education subjects.
This intriguing new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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