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 this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
improvements in
online learning have provided the means for
learners
in every nation on earth
to be participants in classes online.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Canvas Network to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
get a handle on
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
important new open education
ventures.
Public servants want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
facts
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also explores the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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