MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
studies
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
evolvements in
electronic education technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to take online courses.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are numerous
issues that
blended learning organizations
are considering
today because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
certify that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Poland to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
handle issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
endeavours.
Students want
to perceive how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
need for
knowledge
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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