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 cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
articulates
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
distance learning technology have provided the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to take online classes.
These massive online courses are
usually free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online learning technology institutions
are struggling with
today because online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to be aware of how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
new open educational
undertakings.
Public servants want
to comprehend how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
desire for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This exciting new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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