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.
Learn more about this authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
changes in
blended learning are providing the means for
learners
all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
usually free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
blended learning institutions
are having to consider
today because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can teachers
make sure that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Tunisia to conduct these MOOC classes?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
manage problems like
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
need for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This gripping new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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