MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
changes in
online learning technology are empowering
students
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online courses.
These massive open courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
elearning organizations
are having to consider
today because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Norfolk Island to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
initiatives.
Lecturers want
to comprehend how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
growing
desire for
details
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This exciting new book
also researches the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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