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
which
examines
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
gains in
online education are making it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
generally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are many
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
are considering
today because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can learners
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Chile to conduct these MOOC courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
handle problems like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to perceive how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational issues.
This definitive new book
also considers the
most important 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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