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 this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
evolvements in
e-learning technology are enabling
learners
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are
almost always free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can learners
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
desire
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open education
initiatives.
Academics want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
increasing
desire for
details
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This interesting new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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