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.
Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
deals with
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
changes in
online education are providing the means for
people
all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
generally free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
today because online learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can educators
certify that
the quality of these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can learners
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
demand
to perceive how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better perceive
these
new open educational
endeavours.
Public servants want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
need for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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