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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
gains in
electronic educational technology make it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online classes.
These MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students 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 variety of
issues that
distance learning organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can teachers
make sure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can organizations
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
handle problems like
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
exciting new open educational
endeavours.
Corporations want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
need for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This intriguing new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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