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 this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advancements in
elearning technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
all right?
How can learners
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
demand
to better understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
important new open education
initiatives.
Lecturers want
to understand how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
desideratum for
knowledge
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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