MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
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 is a
edited collection
that
examines
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
online education enable
learners
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses online.
These massive online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can educators
assure that
the schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can students
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Germany to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
necessity
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open educational
endeavours.
Professors want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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