MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
online education are making it possible for
people
all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
elearning organizations
are having to struggle with
now that blended learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can participants
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
demand
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
these
compelling new open educational
ventures.
Students want
to perceive how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
data
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This dramatic new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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