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 this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
analyzes
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
elearning technology have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
elearning technology institutions
are having to deal with
today because learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can learners
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
France to conduct these MOOC classes?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with
low
motivation and high
attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
these
important new open education
experiments.
Students want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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