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 the enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
reviews
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
online learning have empowered
learners
all over the world
to participate in online courses.
MOOC classes are
free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to deal with
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can learners
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Boston University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
would like
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This dramatic new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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