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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
examines
issues
having to do with
massively open online courses
(MOOCs) and
open
educational resources (OER).
As
digital learning technology becomes more
available there is a
developing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Brand new
trends in
e-learning
are making it possible for
students
in every nation on earth
to take part in
online classes.
How can
organizations
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
How can
we
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
e-learning technology
institutions
are having to deal with
now that
elearning technology is
improving
so rapidly.
How can
we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
What
different business models are being used by
organizations like
Babson College to conduct these
MOOCs?
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
want
to understand
these
compelling new open
educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
information
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open
education
resource
topics.
This sensational new book also
researches the
opportunities
associated with
MOOC courses and
open education resources (OERS).
For more details please visit this Open Educational Books site.
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