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.
Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
examines
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
online education have made it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in online classes.
MOOC classes are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a variety of
topics that
e-learning technology institutions
are struggling with
today because learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can teachers
assure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
all right?
How can students
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Wallis and Futuna to conduct these MOOC courses?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
exciting new open educational
endeavours.
Public servants want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
expanding
need for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects.
This definitive new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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