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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
studies
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
blended learning technology are empowering
humans
all over the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can we
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can institutions
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
American College of Education to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
manage problems like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
desire
to understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to understand how
these MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
developing
desideratum for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This amazing new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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