MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
The latest
gains in
online education have enabled
people
all over the world
to participate in online classes.
These online MOOCs are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are several
issues that
blended learning organizations
have to consider
more than ever because online learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can organizations
make sure that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desire
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
desire
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
details
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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