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 educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
describes
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
electronic educational technology make it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take online classes.
These MOOC classes are
customarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
certify that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can students
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
handle problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to better understand how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
increasing
desire for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource topics.
This inspiring new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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