MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
articulates
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advancements in
learning technology have empowered
humans
in every nation on earth
to participate in online classes.
These massive online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a variety of
issues that
learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
make sure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can learners
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Guam to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
available there is a
growing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To respond to this
developing
desire for
facts
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This sensational new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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