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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
talks about
issues
relating to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
online learning technology are making it possible for
people
all around the world
to participate in classes online.
MOOC classes are
generally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online education institutions
are having to attend to
now that elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality control for these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can participants
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Zimbabwe to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
widespread there is a
necessity
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
expanding
need for
facts
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects.
This definitive new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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