MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
elearning technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
usually free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are several
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are struggling with
now that online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can educators
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can stakeholders
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can we
handle issues like
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to grasp how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
participants
want
to be more aware of
these
promising new open education
ventures.
Everybody wants
to gain an understanding of how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
desideratum for
details
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This authoritative new book
also talks about the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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