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.
Find out more about the edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
deals with
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
changes in
distance learning technology have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes online.
These online MOOCs are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can organizations
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Congo, (Congo  – Kinshasa) to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As digital educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
demand
to better understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
In response to this
desire for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education resource issues.
This new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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