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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
examines
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
gains in
digital education technology have empowered
people
in nations all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are quite a few
topics that
online education organizations
are having to deal with
now that blended learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can participants
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Djibouti to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
manage
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
necessity
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Students
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to perceive how
MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
expanding
demand for
information
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This intriguing new book
also addresses the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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