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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
addresses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
changes in
electronic educational technology have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
more than ever because distance learning technology is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can learners
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
India to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
need
to grasp how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Everyone wants
to understand how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
desideratum for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational issues.
This scholarly new book
also addresses the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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