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 this dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
New
advances in
distance learning technology have made it possible for
humans
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can institutions
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Clipperton Island to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
necessity
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
participants
need
to be more aware of
these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
In response to this
increasing
desideratum for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This book
also researches the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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