MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
e-learning enable
learners
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
These online MOOCs are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are quite a few
topics that
distance learning organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can institutions
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
handle problems like
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
demand
to perceive how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Scientists
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This scholarly new book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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