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 the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
addresses
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
digital education technology are empowering
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
generally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
have to consider
more than ever because learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can organizations
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Tajikistan to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
handle
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
need
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to perceive how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
In response to this
growing
desire for
facts
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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