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 edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
talks about
issues
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
evolvements in
technology-enhanced learning have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
online education institutions
are considering
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
make sure that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can stakeholders
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
promising new open education
endeavours.
Researchers want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
demand for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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