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.
Find out more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
deals with
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
electronic education technology enable
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
are struggling with
more than ever because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can institutions
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
get a handle on
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
demand
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Corporations
and many other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
developing
need for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This amazing new book
also addresses the
major controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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