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 compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
topics
relating to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
learning technology are providing the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are
typically free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can organizations
assure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Eliademy to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
get a handle on
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
desideratum for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational topics.
This new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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