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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
investigates
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
e-learning are enabling
people
all over the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
normally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
have to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
make sure that
the training provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can institutions
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Uruguay to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
widespread there is a
developing
necessity
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
these
new open educational
experiments.
People want
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
desideratum for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational topics.
This definitive new book
also researches the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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