MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
describes
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
digital education technology are providing the means for
students
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes 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.
MOOC courses are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
learning technology organizations
have to consider
more than ever because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can participants
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Yale University to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
fascinating new open educational
endeavours.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
information
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics.
This authoritative new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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