MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
changes in
digital education technology make it possible for
people
all over the world
to take classes online.
MOOCs are
normally free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
distance learning institutions
have to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can organizations
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can we
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Tristan da Cunha to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
manage issues like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
important new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to perceive how
MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
growing
desideratum for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This scholarly new book
also addresses the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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