MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
reviews
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
online education have provided the means for
people
all around the world
to take courses online.
These online MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
elearning organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can participants
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can participants
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
manage
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
desire
to be more aware of
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
increasing
need for
knowledge
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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