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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
addresses
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
changes in
online education are making it possible for
humans
all around the world
to participate in classes online.
MOOC classes are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
certify that
the quality of these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Swaziland to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desire for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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