MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
describes
issues
regarding open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
evolvements in
e-learning technology have empowered
students
in every nation on earth
to take part in online classes.
These massive online courses are
generally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
e-learning institutions
are having to deal with
today because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
be assured that
the education provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can institutions
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Canada to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
need
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better comprehend
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to understand how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
demand for
data
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education issues.
This gripping new book
also articulates the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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