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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
changes in
online education technology are empowering
humans
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses online.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are several
subjects that
e-learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Zambia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
necessity
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
ventures.
Instructors want
to perceive how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
demand for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This scholarly new book
also researches the
major controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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