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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
analyzes
topics
relating to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
gains in
electronic education technology have empowered
learners
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
Massively open online courses are
typically free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
online learning institutions
are having to struggle with
now that distance learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
assure that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can participants
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Clipperton Island to conduct these MOOC classes?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
necessity
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to know how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational topics.
This sensational new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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