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 cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
researches
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
blended learning technology are providing the means for
students
all over the world
to participate in online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are many
issues that
online learning technology institutions
have to deal with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
improving so quickly.
How can we
guarantee that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
desire
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
participants
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
endeavours.
Scholars want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
need for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This gripping new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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