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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
developments in
electronic education technology are providing the means for
humans
all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
These massive online courses are
usually free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can institutions
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
handle problems like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
need
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
participants
desire
to understand
these
important new open education
ventures.
Students want
to know how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To satisfy this
desire for
details
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics.
This exciting new book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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