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 the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
articulates
topics
regarding open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advances in
blended learning technology have made it possible for
humans
all around the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These online MOOCs are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
blended learning organizations
are considering
today because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
ensure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
necessity
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open education
ventures.
Scholars want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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