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 this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
New
improvements in
online learning technology make it possible for
students
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning institutions
are having to consider
now that online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
assure that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can organizations
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
handle issues like
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
these
new open education
undertakings.
Corporations want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
desire for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This exciting new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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