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 the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
addresses
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
learning technology are making it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses online.
These MOOCs are
commonly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
online education organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
be assured that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can organizations
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Nepal to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
developing
desideratum for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This stimulating new book
also addresses the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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