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 the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
examines
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
elearning technology are providing the means for
students
in all parts of the world
to take part in online courses.
These MOOCs are
usually free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a variety of
subjects that
learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
today because distance learning technology is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
guarantee that
the education provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can we
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
United States to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
handle problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desideratum
to be aware of how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
promising new open educational
ventures.
Everybody wants
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
need for
facts
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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