MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
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
book
that
analyzes
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
advancements in
online education have provided the means for
students
in every nation on earth
to take part in online courses.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning organizations
are dealing with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can organizations
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Lithuania to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
get a handle on
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desideratum
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
new open educational
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to comprehend how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This stimulating new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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