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 this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
describes
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
distance learning technology have provided the means for
humans
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
almost always free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are several
subjects that
e-learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can we
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
demand
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
demand for
information
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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