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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
deals with
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
changes in
e-learning are making it possible for
learners
all around the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
blended learning institutions
have to consider
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the training provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can learners
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As electronic education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to be aware of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
participants
desire
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Scientists want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
demand for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This book
also describes the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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