MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
online education technology enable
humans
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
MOOC classes are
commonly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
distance learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Pitcairn Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage issues like
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
demand for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This amazing new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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