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 dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
addresses
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
advances in
blended learning technology have provided the means for
people
all around the world
to participate in online classes.
These MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
blended learning organizations
are having to attend to
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can learners
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Greece to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
get a handle on
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to better understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better grasp
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Scientists want
to know how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
increasing
desire for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This intriguing new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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