MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
analyzes
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
e-learning technology have enabled
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in online classes.
These massively open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can learners
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
handle problems like
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
desire
to perceive how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
expanding
need for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This amazing new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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