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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
articulates
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
developments in
technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
blended learning institutions
have to deal with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
assure that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Ecuador to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This definitive new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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