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 illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
elearning have made it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
These MOOC classes are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
elearning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can participants
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Alfred State College of Technology - SUNY to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desire
to be aware of how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
these
open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to better understand how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
desire for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This thrilling new book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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