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 cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
describes
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
gains in
distance learning technology enable
students
all over the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a variety of
topics that
online education institutions
are having to attend to
today because learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
assure that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
handle problems like
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
widespread there is a
developing
necessity
to understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
important new open education
endeavours.
Academics want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
need for
data
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education issues.
This intriguing new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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