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 this edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
discusses
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
online education technology have enabled
people
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
distance learning organizations
have to deal with
now that distance learning technology is
developing so quickly.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education.
How can participants
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can students
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Belize to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
manage problems like
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
need for
facts
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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