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 the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
talks about
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advancements in
blended learning technology are providing the means for
humans
all over the world
to be participants in online courses.
These MOOCs are
mostly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can learners
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
need
to better understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
desire for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects.
This gripping new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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