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 educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
analyzes
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
online learning are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These online MOOCs are
mostly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
online learning institutions
have to struggle with
today because learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can learners
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
manage issues like
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
available there is a
necessity
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
want
to better comprehend
these
promising new open education
endeavours.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
increasing
desire for
knowledge
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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