MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
examines
issues
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
elearning enable
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in online courses.
MOOC classes are
customarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are numerous
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are considering
more than ever because learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can participants
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can learners
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
U.S. Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
manage issues like
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
desideratum
to grasp how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
desire for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This dramatic new book
also researches the
major controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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