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 thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
describes
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
digital education technology enable
people
in nations all around the world
to take online classes.
These MOOCs are
mostly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
elearning institutions
must deal with
today because elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can institutions
make sure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can students
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle issues like
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
growing
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
desire for
facts
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This gripping new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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