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 this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advances in
e-learning are providing the means for
learners
all around the world
to be participants in online courses.
MOOCs are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
distance learning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because online education technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Boston University to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
necessity
to grasp how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
want
to be more aware of
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Scientists want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
need for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
MOOC courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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