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 cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
advances in
online education technology have provided the means for
learners
all over the world
to be participants in online classes.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
today because distance learning technology is
improving so quickly.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can participants
make sure that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Belgium to conduct these MOOC courses?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
available there is a
growing
demand
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
important new open education
endeavours.
Researchers want
to better understand how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
desire for
facts
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This gripping new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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