MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
developments in
distance learning technology enable
students
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education organizations
are having to deal with
now that distance learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can organizations
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As electronic education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
necessity
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
initiatives.
People want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To handle this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This dramatic new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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