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 this fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
talks about
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
advances in
online education are providing the means for
learners
in every nation on earth
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
almost always free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are several
issues that
online learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
today because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can institutions
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Belize to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
need
to understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics.
This sensational new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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