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 this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
analyzes
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
advances in
online education are providing the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are
customarily free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
distance learning institutions
have to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can participants
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these MOOCs?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desire
to be aware of how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
desire
to understand
these
interesting new open education
ventures.
Lecturers want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
desire for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational issues.
This inspiring new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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