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 the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
discusses
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
online education technology are providing the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes online.
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 MOOC classes are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
online learning institutions
have to struggle with
today because distance learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Harvard University to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
manage issues like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desideratum
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
open education
endeavours.
Corporations want
to comprehend how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
expanding
demand for
details
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This gripping new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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