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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
electronic education technology have provided the means for
students
in every nation on earth
to take classes via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
be assured that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can we
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Mexico to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
demand
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to perceive how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
desire for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational subjects.
This stimulating new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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