MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
analyzes
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
evolvements in
elearning make it possible for
learners
all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so rapidly.
How can educators
certify that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can institutions
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
growing
need for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This definitive new book
also investigates the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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