MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
deals with
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
digital education technology are providing the means for
learners
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses online.
MOOC classes are
free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
have to struggle with
now that learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can students
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
FutureLearn to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
necessity
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
growing
demand for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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