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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
describes
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
developments in
blended learning are empowering
people
all around the world
to take online classes.
These MOOC classes are
free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
have to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC classes is
passable?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
get a handle on
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
necessity
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better comprehend
these
promising new open education
undertakings.
Intellectuals want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education issues.
This scholarly new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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