MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
articulates
topics
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
improvements in
electronic educational technology have provided the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to take 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.
These online MOOCs are
usually free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can organizations
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Cape Verde to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
available there is a
growing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
undertakings.
Lecturers want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
facts
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This interesting new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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