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 the significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
analyzes
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
changes in
online learning technology make it possible for
people
all around the world
to participate in classes online.
These online MOOCs are
commonly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning institutions
have to consider
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can students
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
iversity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desideratum
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education issues.
This book
also explores the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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