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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
researches
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
elearning technology have enabled
students
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
have to consider
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Germany to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
manage
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
desire
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
participants
desire
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to better understand how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To meet this
expanding
need for
data
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects.
This thrilling new book
also addresses the
major controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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