MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
explores
issues
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
advances in
technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for
students
all over the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can students
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
need
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
ventures.
Public servants want
to perceive how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To handle this
developing
desideratum for
information
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This new book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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