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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
discusses
issues
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
gains in
online learning have made it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These online MOOCs are
normally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
blended learning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because blended learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Gambia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
available there is a
necessity
to perceive how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
want
to better understand
these
open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
details
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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