MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
explores
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advancements in
online education are empowering
people
all over the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
commonly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
online learning organizations
are dealing with
now that online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can educators
ensure that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
demand
to perceive how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better perceive
these
new open educational
undertakings.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Teachers want
to grasp how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
developing
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This interesting new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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