MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
distance learning have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
These online MOOCs are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
elearning institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
How can we
be assured that
the education provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can participants
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Canada to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desire
to grasp how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be improved.
In response to this
developing
desideratum for
information
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This stimulating new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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