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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
articulates
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
New
advances in
online learning have enabled
learners
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses online.
MOOC courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
distance learning institutions
have to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can participants
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Vietnam to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
these
important new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to better understand how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
demand for
knowledge
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education subjects.
This scholarly new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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