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 this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
explores
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
developments in
electronic education technology enable
students
in nations all around the world
to take courses online.
MOOC classes are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to deal with
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Lesotho to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
manage issues like
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
In response to this
developing
desire for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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