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 dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
reviews
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
changes in
learning technology have empowered
people
in nations all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
distance learning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Kazakhstan to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
manage
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online education becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
need
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
these
compelling new open education
endeavours.
Scholars want
to perceive how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
increasing
desire for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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