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.
Learn more about the edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
addresses
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advancements in
blended learning technology have provided the means for
learners
all around the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
distance learning organizations
have to deal with
today because elearning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can organizations
assure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can participants
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
handle issues like
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
need
to better understand
these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
developing
desideratum for
data
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This scholarly new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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