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.
Find out more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
studies
topics
related to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
online learning technology are providing the means for
people
all over the world
to participate in courses online.
These massive open courses are
free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
are dealing with
now that online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desideratum
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better perceive
these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
desideratum for
details
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics.
This intriguing new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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