MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
deals with
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
elearning technology are enabling
students
in nations all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
make sure that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can we
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Canvas Network to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
developing
need
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
participants
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
initiatives.
Academics want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
growing
need for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education issues.
This new book
also researches the
key controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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