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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
analyzes
issues
regarding open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
evolvements in
e-learning technology have provided the means for
humans
all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
generally free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education organizations
have to deal with
now that online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can students
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
manage
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
demand
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
endeavours.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
growing
desideratum for
information
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics.
This new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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