MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
deals with
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
online education are making it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to attend to
today because blended learning technology is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
ensure that
the quality control for these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can students
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desideratum
to grasp how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Trainers want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
need for
knowledge
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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