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.
Learn more about this enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
reviews
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
developments in
online learning technology have provided the means for
learners
all over the world
to take classes online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive open courses are
free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning organizations
are having to consider
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
certify that
the quality control for these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can organizations
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
State University of New York to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
desire
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to better understand how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This amazing new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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