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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
blended learning technology are enabling
learners
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
Massive open online courses are
almost always free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
online learning institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can institutions
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Pennsylvania to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
handle issues like
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
developing
demand
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
important new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
desire for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also addresses the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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