MOOCs and Open Education Around the World.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
blended learning are enabling
people
all over the world
to take online courses.
These online MOOCs are
free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online learning institutions
are having to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can educators
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Canada to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
get a handle on
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
these
interesting new open educational
ventures.
Corporations want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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