MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
talks about
topics
related to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
distance learning technology make it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in 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 online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Turks and Caicos Islands to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
handle problems like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
desideratum
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
participants
desire
to understand
these
interesting new open education
undertakings.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
demand for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education topics.
This exciting new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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