MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
deals with
issues
regarding open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
changes in
online education enable
humans
all over the world
to take online classes.
These online MOOC courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
distance learning organizations
must deal with
more than ever because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
handle
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
ventures.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Teachers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
growing
demand for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects.
This amazing new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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