MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
deals with
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
online education enable
students
all over the world
to take part in courses online.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
elearning technology institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the training provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
developing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Teachers
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
these
compelling new open education
initiatives.
Everyone wants
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
In response to this
growing
desideratum for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This dramatic new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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