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 compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
online learning technology have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
MOOCs are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
online learning organizations
are dealing with
more than ever because online learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
University of Pittsburgh to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
manage issues like
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
desideratum
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
participants
want
to be more aware of
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to know how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
desideratum for
details
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education topics.
This definitive new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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