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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
examines
topics
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
digital education technology are making it possible for
people
all around the world
to take classes online.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
MOOC courses are
usually free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online education institutions
are having to struggle with
more than ever because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
handle
inadequate
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better perceive
these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to perceive how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
desideratum for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This sensational new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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