MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
changes in
electronic educational technology have made it possible for
students
in all parts of the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online education institutions
have to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can teachers
ensure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can participants
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Iceland to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
demand
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
need for
information
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This sensational new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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