MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
addresses
issues
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
improvements in
blended learning are empowering
learners
all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
mostly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning organizations
have to struggle with
more than ever because blended learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
The University of Chicago to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
necessity
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
these
significant new open educational
endeavours.
Professors want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
desire for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics.
This new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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