MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
investigates
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
improvements in
blended learning technology have enabled
students
in every nation on earth
to take courses online.
Massively open online courses are
free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
e-learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can organizations
ensure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage problems like
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
necessity
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
participants
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to understand how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To handle this
growing
desire for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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