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 exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
digital education technology enable
students
all over the world
to take part in courses online.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online education institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can participants
ensure that
the education provided by these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
United Kingdom to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
new open education
undertakings.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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