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 interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
discusses
topics
relating to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
gains in
electronic education technology have provided the means for
students
all around the world
to take courses online.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
These massive open courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are several
issues that
elearning institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the education provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can learners
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Grenada to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
demand
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
need
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
demand for
details
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This interesting new book
also analyzes the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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