MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
researches
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
electronic education technology are providing the means for
people
all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
MOOC classes are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
distance learning institutions
are dealing with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
be assured that
the quality control for these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can institutions
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Abkhazia to conduct these MOOCs?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
growing
desideratum for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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