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 this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
changes in
learning technology have made it possible for
students
in nations all around the world
to participate in online courses.
These massive online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
e-learning organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can students
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
manage
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
desideratum
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
need
to understand
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This definitive new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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