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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
analyzes
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
changes in
elearning technology have made it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
distance learning organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can students
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Micronesia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
manage
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
prolific there is a
desire
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
need
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
desideratum for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues.
This definitive new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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