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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
articulates
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
advances in
distance learning have provided the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in online courses.
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.
MOOCs are
typically free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
distance learning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so swiftly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can students
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Australia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to grasp how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
participants
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
ventures.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
desire for
details
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also deals with the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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