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 is a
edited collection
which
discusses
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
electronic educational technology have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to take courses online.
These massive open courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online learning institutions
are dealing with
more than ever because elearning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
handle issues like
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
intriguing new open educational
endeavours.
Students want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
demand for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This dramatic new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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