MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
analyzes
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
blended learning technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to take online classes.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
OpenupEd to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to perceive how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education subjects.
This amazing new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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