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 scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
articulates
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
developments in
e-learning are empowering
students
in every nation on earth
to take online classes.
Massive open online courses are
commonly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online education institutions
are dealing with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so quickly.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can students
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Vanuatu to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
get a handle on
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
available there is a
developing
desire
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to grasp how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
expanding
demand for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education subjects.
This new book
also reviews 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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