MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
deals with
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
electronic education technology are providing the means for
learners
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
These online MOOC courses are
usually free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
distance learning institutions
are having to consider
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so fast.
This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Equatorial Guinea to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
manage issues like
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to perceive how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This definitive new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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