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 the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
deals with
topics
regarding open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
New
gains in
online learning technology enable
humans
all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are considering
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
all right?
How can we
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Mauritius to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
available there is a
increasing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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